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by Ovid,

Edited by Peter E. Knox

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published November 1995, 339 pages, paper

ISBN 0521368340

In this volume, Knox provides the first full-scale commentary in English in this century on a selection from Ovid's Heroides, a collection of letters in elegiac verse supposedly addressed by heroines of mythology to their absent lovers or husbands. This edition is intended to `novide students of Latin literature with guidance in the interpretation of these poems. The Introduction also includes a general account of Ovid's career and the place of the Heroides in the development of Augustan poetry.