Some stylometric remarks on Ovid's Heroides and the Epistula Sapphus.
This article contributes to two well-worn areas of debate in classical Latin philology, relating to Ovid's Heroides. The first is the question of the authenticity (and, to a lesser extent the correct position) of the letter placed 15th in almost every collection—the so-called Epistula Sapphus (hence...
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