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Ovid's Heroidos (Paperback)
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Ovid's Heroidos (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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. Thus, fifteen chapters are devoted to a thorough
analysis and interpretation of the particular poems, while six
additional chapters are concerned with problems that pertain to the
work as a whole, such as the nature of the genre, the role of
rhetoric, theme, and variation, and the originality of Ovid.
Special attention is given to the application of modern
psychological criticism to the delineations of the pathological
psyche in the letters. In an additional chapter on the chronology
of Ovid's early amatory poetry, the author challenges and revises
the traditional dating of the Heroides. Originally published in
1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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