Ovid: Heroides I Introduction and Latin Text, with Greek Translation by Maximus Planudes

by Palmer, Arthur; Kennedy, Duncan F.

• ISBN13: 9781904675051
• ISBN10: 1904675050
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-12
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

The Heroides, a collection of elegiac poems written as letters, fused Ovid's interests in erotics and myth into a new and unique genre, in which experiments with epistolary form and the psychology of first-person narrative would go on to have a profound influence on European literature. This two-volume edition of 1898 remains an essential resource for the poems; but it has long been difficult to obtain. It contains what is still the only detailed commentary in English on the whole collection, as well as extensive discussion of the text and its transmission. It also offers the full text of the translation of Heroides into Greek prose by the Byzantine scholar Maximus Planudes.

Author Biography

Arthur Palmer was Professor of Latin in the University of Dublin and Fellow of Trinity College. The edition was completed after his death by his colleague, L.C. Purser. Duncan Kennedy is Reader in Latin Literature and the Theory of Criticism at the University of Bristol.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO NEW EDITION
Palmer, Purser and Housman	VII
Text, transmission and authenticity	X
Epistolarity	XI
Intertextuality	XIII
The 'authors' of the Heroides: the politics of gender and tradition	XV
Notes	XVII
Select Bibliography	XXI
ORIGINAL PREFACE	vii
ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION	ix
I Ovid and his Heroides	ix
II The Chief Manuscripts	xxxiii
III The Translation of Planudes	xlvi
IV Mr. Housman's Emendations	liv
P. OVIDI NASONIS HEROIDES (Text)	1	(158)
MAXIMI PLANUDIS METAPHRASIS	159