by Publio Ovidio Nasón, Fernando Plans Moreno, Andrea Valbuena · EDICIONES SM · tapa dura · ISBN 9788413188218
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«Cartas de las heroínas» is the mythological epistolary by Publio Ovidio Nasón, with Fernando Plans Moreno and Andrea Valbuena, published by EDICIONES SM in hardcover.
Twenty-one letters written by Ovid in the first century give voice to women of Greek mythology whom tradition remembered only through their husbands or lovers. Their texts express feelings, claims and struggles: infidelities, abandonments, loneliness and defiance of social conventions. The work rescues these heroines from an empathetic and contemporary perspective against the male-dominated heroic narrative.
Spanish-language edition from the Fuera de Colección collection, published in 2020, with a prologue by Andrea Valbuena, adaptation by Fernando Plans Moreno and illustrations by Ana Santos.
Recommended for young readers aged 14 and over interested in mythology, feminism and contemporary re-readings of the classics.
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a carmen et error, but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
