Epistulae heroidum

Ovid

Walter de Gruyter, 1971 - History - 336 pages

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Contents

• 83: 5
• 45: 9
• Praefatio ad epistulam Sapphus: 12
• 47: 15
• Praefationis appendice explicatur ratio symbolorum abbreviationum siglorum in apparatu critico adhibitorum: 21
• P Ovidii Nasonis Epistulae Heroidum: 45
• Penelope Ulixi: 47
• Phyllis Demophoonti: 55
• Briseis Achilli: 64
• Phaedra Hippolyto: 73
• Oenone Paridi: 83
• Hypsipyle Iasoni: 93
• Dido Aeneae: 104
• Hermione Oresti: 119
• Deianira Herculi: 127
• Ariadna Theseo: 140
• Canace Macareo: 150
• Medea Iasoni: 158
• Laodamia Protesilao: 172
• Hypermestra Lynceo: 183
• Epistula Sapphus remota est in editionis calcem 16 Paris Helenae: 193
• Helena Paridi: 216
• Leander Heroni: 232
• Hero Leandro: 245
• Acontius Cydippae: 258
• Cydippe Acontio: 275
• 93: 279
• 104: 291
• 140: 303
• 150: 304
• 172: 323
• 193: 324
• 216: 326
• 232: 330
• 275: 335

Popular passages

Page 326 - Cur tamen Actiacas miseram me mittis ad oras, Cum profugum possis ipse referre pedem? Tu mihi Leucadia potes esse salubrior unda; Et forma et mentis tu mihi Phoebus eris.‎

Page 324 - Quin etiam rami positis lugere videntur Frondibus ; et nullae dulce queruntur aves. Sola virum non ulta pie nwEstissima mater 175 Concinit Ismarium Daulias ales Ityn : Ales Ityn, Sappho desertos cantat amores.‎

About the author

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC--AD 17/18), known as Ovid. Born of an equestrian family in Sulmo, Ovid was educated in rhetoric in Rome but gave it up for poetry. He counted Horace and Propertius among his friends and wrote an elegy on the death of Tibullus. He became the leading poet of Rome but was banished in 8 A.D. by an edict of Augustus to remote Tomis on the Black Sea because of a poem and an indiscretion. Miserable in provincial exile, he died there ten years later. His brilliant, witty, fertile elegiac poems include Amores (Loves), Heroides (Heroines), and Ars Amatoris (The Art of Love), but he is perhaps best known for the Metamorphoses, a marvelously imaginative compendium of Greek mythology where every story alludes to a change in shape. Ovid was admired and imitated throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Jonson knew his works well. His mastery of form, gift for narration, and amusing urbanity are irresistible.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Epistulae heroidum; Volume 6 of Texte und Kommentare : eine Altertumswissenschaftliche Reihe; Volume 6 of Texte und Kommentare, ISSN 0563-3087
• Author: Ovid
• Editor: Heinrich Dörrie
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, 1971
• ISBN: 3110035871, 9783110035872
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: History / Ancient / General; History / World; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Literary Collections / Ancient & Classical; Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical