Heroides
Ovid, translated by Stanley Lombardo, Melina McClure, introduction by Tara Welch
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"What would Greek and Roman myth look like if women had written the stories?" asks Tara Welch in her illuminating Introduction to this volume. Stanley Lombardo and Melina McClure’s faithful translation of Ovid’s famous letters, purportedly written by heroines of classical antiquity to their absent lovers, offers an inkling of one intriguing possibility.
Contributor Bio
Stanley Lombardo is Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Kansas.
Melina McClure is a graduate student in Classics at the University of Oxford.
Tara Welch is Professor of Classics, University of Kansas.
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