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Heroides

Heroides

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A collection of poems by Ovid in which women in myths write letters to their lovers
  • proper noun
  • /ˈhɛroʊaɪˌdiːz/
  • Literature
: Heroides
  • The love letters of mythological heroines in Heroides reveal deep emotions.
  • Ovid's Heroides

Examples

  • * As referenced by Ovid, Heroides 10.101-2.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Ovid Heroides 16.51-88; Lucian Judicium Paridis 8-16.9.

    Academic text (2012)

  • In his studies, he often analyzed the themes found in Heroides by Ovid.

  • Reading Heroides offers insight into the perspectives of ancient female figures.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Heroides comes from a Greek word that means 'heroines' and shares the same root as English hero and heroine. Ovid used the title for a book of imagined letters from myth women to their lovers, so the name helps you remember the poems are the voices of those heroines.