Ovid's Heroines - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloodaxe BooksISBN-13:9781852249762ISBN-10:1852249765UPC:9781852249762Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Ancient & ClassicalBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCW138YNAM
Ovid's Heroines
Ovid's Heroides, written in Rome some time between 25 and 16 BC, was once his most popular work. The title translates as Heroines, and it's a series of poems in the voices of women from Greek and Roman myth - including Phaedra, Medea, Penelope and Ariadne - addressed to the men they love. It has been claimed as both the first book of dramatic monologues and the first of epistolary fiction. It's...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloodaxe BooksISBN-13:9781852249762ISBN-10:1852249765UPC:9781852249762Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Ancient & ClassicalBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCW138YNAM
Clare Pollard was born in Bolton in 1978 and lives in London. She has published five collections with Bloodaxe: The Heavy-Petting Zoo (1998), which she wrote while still at school; Bedtime (2002); Look, Clare! Look! (2005); Changeling (2011), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and Incarnation (2017). Her translation Ovid's Heroines was published by Bloodaxe in 2013. Her first play The Weather...
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