P. Ovidius Naso, Heroides 9 to 15

By: J. B. Hall, A. L. Ritchie, Michael Edwards

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Ovid's Heroides are fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This unique volume presents a comprehensive collection of all medieval and renaissance manuscript readings for poems 9-15, vital for understanding how the established text was created.

The Heroides, or Letters of Heroines, is a collection of twenty-one fictional letters composed by the famous Augustan poet Ovid (43 BC-AD 17/18). It is…

The Heroides, or Letters of Heroines, is a collection of twenty-one fictional letters composed by the famous Augustan poet Ovid (43 BC-AD 17/18). It is a widely read work of elegiac poetry which is of special interest to students of gender literature. The poems, which take the form of fifteen letters from heroines to their absent lovers and three pairs of letters to a lover with a reply, have frequently been edited and translated into English in both prose and verse. In this volume is a comprehensive collection of information for the ninth to the fifteenth poems. It comprises all the readings of all the medieval and many of the renaissance manuscripts that contain the poems. Such a collection of information is unique. It is vital for understanding the rationale of the procedures by which the text has been established.

J. B. Hall taught Latin at Bedford College, University of London, subsequently at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, and is now retired as Hildred Carlile Professor of Latin Emeritus. He has co-edited and translated the works of Statius in five volumes, and has produced an edition and separately a translation of John of Salisbury’s Metalogicon.

A. L. Ritchie received an MA with Distinction in classics from the University of London. She was a freelance copy-editor of learned journals and a translator of Latin texts, and co-edited the works of Statius in five volumes.

M. J. Edwards is Professor of Classics and Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published widely on the Attic Orators, Plutarch and the Latin philosophical works of Francis Bacon. He co-edited the works of Statius in five volumes.

Hardback

ISBN: 1-5275-3003-5
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-3003-4
Date of Publication: 2023-10-23

Paperback

ISBN: 1-0364-1081-1
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-1081-0
Date of Publication: 2024-07-31

Ebook

ISBN: 1-5275-3004-3
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-3004-1
Date of Publication: 2024-07-31

Categories: Social Sciences, Literature, Literature, Classics

Pages: 360

Subject Codes:

BIC: DC, DSBB, DSC
THEMA: DC, DSBB, DSC

Pages: 360

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J. B. Hall

P. Ovidius Naso, Heroides 1 to 8

By: J. B. Hall, A. L. Ritchie, Michael Edwards

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Ovid’s Heroides gives voice to mythical heroines in letters to their absent lovers. This groundbreaking volume offers the first-ever databank of medieval readings and modern conjectures, an essential resource for understanding how the poems’ texts were established.

P. Ovidius Naso, The Heroides

Text and Translation

By: J. B. Hall, A. L. Ritchie, Michael Edwards

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Ovid’s Heroides is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume presents a radically new text and translation of the collection, separating the original core from later accretions. The translation is designed to aid interpretation.

P. Ovidius Naso, Heroides 16 to 21

By: J. B. Hall, A. L. Ritchie, Michael Edwards

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Ovid’s Heroides, or Letters of Heroines, is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume offers an essential databank for the final six poems: the three pairs of letters. It is arranged as an enlarged critical apparatus for the text.

P. Papinius Statius Volume II

Thebaid and Achilleid

By: A. L. Ritchie, J. B. Hall

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This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive commentary for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the Achilleid, which was left unfinished at his death.

A. L. Ritchie