A collection of poems or literary works depicting heroic subjects, especially Ovid's 'Heroides,' letters from mythical heroines to their absent lovers.
From Latin heroides (plural of heroida), from Greek hērōida (feminine of hērōs), referring to poems about heroic women.
Ovid's Heroides is famous because it gives voice to abandoned women in mythology—Ariadne, Medea, Dido—telling their side of the story that male epics ignored.
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