Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Heroides in Context
1 Narrative Interrupted: Heroides 7
2 Viscera nostra: Heroides 1
3 Real Poetry: Imaginary and Symbolic Dissonance in Heroides 3
4 Interlude: Time, Place, and Exile in Heroides 5
5 Critical Reading in Heroides 16 and 17
Coda: Hindsight and the double Heroides

Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the Author

Megan O. Drinkwater is a professor and chair of the department of classics at Agnes Scott College. She has previously published several articles on different aspects of Ovid’s work and has contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy.

Reviews

“Ovid’s Heroides and the Augustan Principate provides an innovative, new avenue for reading the Heroides, pushing us to see the work as far more subversive than typically thought, as one that deviates from canonical narratives and creates sympathy for the powerless in the face of the powerful.”—Bartolo Natoli, Randolph-Macon College

“A seminal work of outstanding scholarship. . . . Exceptionally well written, organized, and presented.”—Midwest Book Review "Explores new ground. . . . The book is accessible and well written, and the author makes her case well."—CHOICE Reviews