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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.

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. This volume presents a radically new text and translation of the whole collection. The text separates what we regard as the original core of the poem from what we take to be additional accretions to it. The translation is designed to facilitate an understanding of the original as an aid to interpretation. All students of Latin poetry are included in the intended readership.

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: 1-5275-2997-5
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-2997-7
Date of Publication: 2023-10-23

Paperback

ISBN: 1-0364-1083-8
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-1083-4
Date of Publication: 2024-07-31

Ebook

ISBN: 1-5275-2999-1
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-2999-1
Date of Publication: 2024-07-31

Categories: Social Sciences, Literature, Literature, Classics

Pages: 321

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Pages: 321

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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, 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.

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

P. Ovidius Naso, Heroides 1 to 8

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

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P. Ovidius Naso, Heroides 9 to 15

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

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P. Ovidius Naso, Heroides 16 to 21

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P. Papinius Statius

Thebaid and Achilleid Volume III

By: A. L. Ritchie, Mike J. Edwards

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Volume III on Statius’ Thebaid and Achilleid is divided into two parts. The first discusses the textual transmission, manuscripts, and editions. The second part comprises a secondary apparatus with further evidence and all unrecorded conjectures.

P. Papinius Statius Volume II

Thebaid and Achilleid

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

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P. Papinius Statius Volume I

Thebaid and Achilleid

By: A. L. Ritchie, Mike J. Edwards

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This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive secondary apparatus for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid.

Michael Edwards

A Commentary on Apollodorus’ Against Evergus and Mnesibulus

A Case of False Witness

By: Eleni Volonaki, Michael Edwards

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This first modern commentary examines a speech from 4th-century Athens, when a wartime funding crisis and an opponent’s illegal behaviour threatened the city’s security. The book explains the intricate legal issues and rhetorical strategies, and offers a new English translation.

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