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John Godwin - Ovid Heroides: A Selection - 9781474265904 - V9781474265904
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Ovid Heroides: A Selection

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Description for Ovid Heroides: A Selection Paperback. Editor(s): Godwin, John. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 4KL; DB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 189 x 10. Weight in Grams: 170.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
170g
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474265904
SKU
V9781474265904
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99-5

About John Godwin
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 for Ovid Heroides: A Selection
Godwin's style is light, rapid and informative, of a kind surely to appeal to sixth formers ... Strongly recommended.
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