Readers and Writers in Ovid's Heroides

This is the first book-length study to reconstruct the experiences of the abandoned heroines of the Heroides, which have been largely ignored by past criticism. Dr Spentzou isolates the voices of landmark female figures of the classical myth, releasing them from Ovid's male text. Bringing together a broad range of ancient and modern critical thought, this is a book about gender, genre, writing, and reading women and men, in antiquity and today.