Salvete Ovid Lovers!
This year’s Summer Book Club will feature Ovid’s Heroides!
The Heroides are 21 letters from mythological heroines and heroes, written in elegiac couplets. The first fifteen poems are also known as the Single Heroides and feature letters from heroines to their lovers with no response, including: Penelope to Odysseus, Dido to Aeneas, Medea to Jason, among many others. The last six, also known as the Double Heroides, are paired letters from heroes and responses from heroines, including Paris and Helen, among others.
The Heroides will run from Monday, July 10, 2023 to Monday, September 25, 2023. Each poem will be spread over 2 to 3 days, depending on its length. The Latin and translation will be those featured in Grant Showerman’s 1914 edition.
Schedule:
July 10 & 11: Penelope to Odysseus
July 13 & 14: Phyllis to Demophoon
July 17 & 18: Briseis to Achilles
July 20 & 21: Phaedra to Hippolytus
July 24 & 25: Oenone to Paris
July 27 & 28: Hypsipyle to Jason
July 31 & August 1: Dido to Aeneas
August 3 & 4: Hermione to Orestes
August 7 & 8: Deianira to Hercules
August 10 & 11: Ariadne to Theseus
August 14 & 15: Canace to Macareus
August 17 & 18: Medea to Jason
August 21 & 22: Laodamia to Protesilaus
August 24 & 25: Hypermnestra to Lynceus
August 28 & 29: Sappho to Phaon
August 31, September 1 & 2: Paris to Helen
September 5, 6 & 7: Helen’s response to Paris
September 11 & 12: Leander to Hero
September 14 & 15: Hero’s response to Leander
September 18, 19 & 20: Acontius to Cydippe
September 23, 24 & 25: Cydippe’s response to Acontius
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Valete laetaque evolvens!
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I'm missing all the July poems after Penelope... is this just a me problem or did the schedule shift?