title: Ovid: Heroides: Select Epistles (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
author:  Ovid 
description: "Students and instructors alike will find Knox's observations on Ovid's language, style, and meter, as well as his notes on single words and phrase, comprehensive and stimulating. The bibliography and indexes are thorough and up-to-date. Highly recommended..." Choice<br /><br />"Peter Knox, an outstanding Ovidian Scholar, has produced a typically thorough, in many ways excellent, commentary on a selection of Heroides for the Cambridge "yellow and green" series." Sergio Casali, The Classical Journal<br /><br />"Knox provides an introduction to Ovid's Heroides, useful for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional classicists. Moreover, careful study of the notes can serve as an excellent introduction to the broader topic of Ovidian language, style, and metrics." Betty Rose Nagle, Classical World
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  THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
  EDITED BY
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  E. PAGE, Litt.D., and W. H. D. ROUSE, Litt.D.
  OVID
  HEROIDES AND AMORES
  
  OVID
  HEROIDES AND AMORES
  WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
  GRANT SHOWERMAN
  PROFESSOR OF LATIN
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  WISCONSIN
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  LONDON
  : WILLIAM HKINEMANN
  NEW YORK
  : THE MACMILLAN
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  MCMXIV
  
  CONTENTS
  PAGE
  THE HEROIDES
  1
  THE A MORES
  S13
  INDEX
  509
  
  I
  THE HEROIDES
  
  OVID'S LIFE
  Publius
  Ovidius Naso was
  born
  at Sulmo,
  a city
  about ninety miles south-east of Rome, in the country
  of the
  Paeligni, on March
  20,
  43
  B.C., the year of
  the
  second
  triumvirate,
  composed
  of
  Augustus,
  Antony, and Lepidus, and the year of the proscription
  and death of the
  Ciceros