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The ''Heroides (Her.) (“The Heroines”), or Epistulae Heroidum (“Letters of Heroines”), are a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid in Latin elegiac couplet, and presented as though written by a selection of aggrieved heroine of Greek and Roman mythology, in address to their heroic lovers who have in some way mistreated, neglected, or abandoned them.A further set of six poems—widely known as the Double Heroides and numbered 16 to 21 in modern scholarly editions—follows these...
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