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Heroides. Amores

Contributor(s): Ovid (Author), Showerman, Grant (Translator), Goold, G P (Revised by)

ISBN: 9780674990456

Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Pub Date: January 1, 1914

Dewey: 871.01

LCCN: 88139567

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.05" H x 6.69" L x 4.54" W ( 0.80 lbs) 544 pages

Series: Loeb Classical Library

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Description: In Heroides, Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) allows legendary women to narrate their memories and express their emotions in verse letters to absent husbands and lovers. Ovid's Amores are three books of elegies ostensibly about the poet's love affair with his mistress Corinna.

Brief description: G. P. Goold was William Lampson Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Yale University, and General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library (1974-1999).

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