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 also a radical text in its literary transvestism, and
the way it often presents the same story from very different,
subjective perspectives. For a long time it was Ovid's most
influential work, loved by Chaucer, Dante, Marlowe, Shakespeare and
Donne, and translated by Dryden and Pope. Clare Pollard's new
translation rediscovers Ovid's Heroines for the 21st century, with
a cast of women who are brave, bitchy, sexy, suicidal, horrifying,
heartbreaking and surprisingly modern. Two of the most popular
poetry books of recent times have been Ted Hughes's new version of
Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife,
dramatic monologues by women from myth and history giving their
side of the story. Clare Pollard's new take on Ovid's Heroines is
another book in that vein, bringing classic tales to life for
modern readers.
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