Time and genre intersect in a number of ways in the Heroides : the epistolarity of the poems insists that each is written at a specific point in time or “to the moment,” as Duncan Kennedy argues in the Heroides, this is often a point in time prior to the defining moment of that heroine’s mythology. As a collection of letters that take on the point of view of spurned mythological heroines writing to their former lovers, the poems purport to express the sadness, fear, and anger felt by the heroines from their own perspective-though, of course, the Heroides is the work of male poet Ovid. Ovid’s Heroides are fundamentally paradoxical. Reading Ovid’s Heroides 15 as Reconstruction
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