Ovid's Toyshop of the Heart: Epistulae Heroidum
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Florence Verducci challenges the presuppositions and expectations that have led to embarrassed censure of the wit and comic irreverence that Ovid wove into these dramatic monologues, addressed by his heroines to absent lovers.
Originally published in 1986.
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