Ovid's Heroides

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:The_Heroines
gptkbp:author gptkb:Ovid
gptkbp:contains gptkb:Heroides_1-15_(single_letters_from_heroines)
Heroides 16-21 (paired letters: hero and heroine)
gptkbp:criticalEditions gptkb:A.S._Hollis_(Oxford_Classical_Texts)
Peter E. Knox (Cambridge Green and Yellow)
gptkbp:date circa 15 BCE
gptkbp:firstPoem Penelope to Ulysses
gptkbp:form elegiac couplets
gptkbp:genre epistolary poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Ovid's Heroides
gptkbp:influenced medieval literature
Renaissance literature
gptkbp:language gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:lastPoem Sappho to Phaon
gptkbp:notablePoems gptkb:Phaedra_to_Hippolytus
Briseis to Achilles
Dido to Aeneas
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:Ancient_Rome
gptkbp:referencedIn gptkb:Ars_Amatoria
gptkb:Remedia_Amoris
gptkbp:setting ancient mythology
gptkbp:significance early example of literary letters
gptkbp:studiedIn classical studies
gptkbp:subject mythological heroines
gptkbp:survivingWorks numerous medieval manuscripts
gptkbp:theme love
abandonment
female perspective
gptkbp:verseNumber 21
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Sappho
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5