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In the Heroides, the Roman poet Ovid wittily plucks fifteen abandoned heroines from ancient myth and literature and creates the fiction that each woman writes a letter to the hero who left her behind. But in giving voice to these heroines, is Ovid writing like a woman, or writing "Woman" like a man?
Using feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to examine the "female voice" in the Heroides, Sara H. Lindheim closely reads these fictive letters in which the women seemingly tell their own stories. She points out that in Ovid s verse epistles all the women represent themselves in...

New directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to an explosion of new work in the intersection between these disciplines, which this interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore. This is an invaluable volume for those working on queer theory and the history of sexuality.