1875 Les Héroides Ovid Epistulae Heroidum Ovid Epistolary Poetry Latin Mythology
Les Héroides La Remède d’Amour Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) (The Heroines, The Remedy of Love) – In French language. Ouvres completes. (Tome 1) Collected works. (Volume 1)
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Paris, Garnier Frères, 1875.
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Book of epistolary poems by one of three canonic Latin poets. The Heroines, or Epistulae Heroidum (Letters of Heroines), is a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid in Latin elegiac couplets and presented as though written by a selection of aggrieved heroines of Greek and Roman mythology in address to their heroic lovers who have in some way mistreated, neglected, or abandoned them. French edition of this collection presents joyful reading of finest antiquity poetry.
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Pp: |6| + 553 Size: 17, 8 x 11, 8 cm.
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Binding: Original quarter leather binding. Gilt stamped spine cover, slightly bumped edges. Condition: Half title page slightly torn (1cm). Clean copy, in very good condition.
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