This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid's Heroides, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Heroides VI, lines 1-100 and 127-64, and X, lines 1-76 and 119-50. A detailed introduction covers the prescribed text to be read in English, placing the poems in their Roman literary context. The heroines of the Heroides are women in love who can do nothing but write sad verse letters to their faithless lovers across the sea. They tell their stories and express their feelings in poetry of great power and psychological subtlety. Hypsipyle (in VI) and Ariadne (in X) are feminists before feminism, royal ladies who are slaves to their passion - these women are given a voice by Ovid in poetry which is at once simple and sophisticated, heartfelt and yet also full of irony and literary resonance.

The exam-board approved book for OCR's Latin A-Level prescription of Ovid's Heroides.

About the Author
John Godwin was for many years Head of Classics at Shrewsbury School, UK. His publications include Ovid: Metamorphoses III An Extract (Bloomsbury 2013), Lucretius (Ancients in Action series, Bloomsbury 2004) and editions of Lucretius De Rerum Natura Books IV and VI and Catullus Poems 61-68.

Reviews
Godwin's style is light, rapid and informative, of a kind surely to appeal to sixth formers ... Strongly recommended. * Classics For All Reviews *



Book Information
ISBN 9781474265904
Author Dr John Godwin
Format Paperback
Page Count 120
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 157g