Readers and Writers in Ovid's Heroides

• The first book-length study to reonstruct the experiences of the abandoned heroines of the Heroides
• Fresh and original adaptation of feminist thought to classical texts

Readership: Scholars and students of Classics (especially Latin literature), comparative literature, cultural studies, gender studies, literary therory and tradition, myth, and reception.

Efrossini Spentzou, Lecturer in Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London

"In this rich and challenging book, Efrossini Spentzou has provided a valuable and nuanced contribution to the growing body of scholarship on Ovid's elegiac-espitolary heroines." - Classical World

"... highly sophisticated." - The Journal of Classics Teaching

Synopses of the Myths
1: Getting Down to Essentials?
2: Reading Characters Read: On Methodology
3: Landscapes of Lost Innocence
4: The Heroines in the Chora of Writing
5: Postcards Home: The Heroides as Letters
6: A Splintery Frame: The Heroides as Short Stories
Postscript: Writing on the Edge