Download or read book Heroides written by Ovid and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.