Ovid's Heroidos

ISBN: 9780691618333 出版年：2015 页码：452 Jacobson, Howard Princeton University Press

A series of letters purportedly written by penelope, dido, medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the heroides represents ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In this book, howard jacobson examines the first fifteen elegaic letters of the heroides. In his critical evaluation, professor jacobson takes into consideration the twofold nature of the work: its existence as a single entity with uniform poetic structure and coherent goals, and its existence as a collection of fifteen individual poems.