Ovidius, Heroides 4.99–100: Atalanta in the Calydonian boar hunt

Title

Ovidius, Heroides 4.99–100: Atalanta in the Calydonian boar hunt

Date

47 BCE - 17 CE

Type

Poetry

Source Type

Literary source

Translation

And Meleager was on fire for Arcadian Atalanta:
she had the wild boar’s hide as a token of his love.

Translation used

A. S. Kline's Open Access Poetry Archive (2001)

Text

arsit et Oenides in Maenalia Atalanta;
illa ferae spolium pignus amoris habet.

Edition used

Grant Showerman (ed.), Ovid, Heroides and Amores (= Loeb Classical Library 41), Cambridge, MA – London 1931.

Collection

Citation

Ovidius, “Ovidius, Heroides 4.99–100: Atalanta in the Calydonian boar hunt,” Cynisca: Documenting Women and Girls in Ancient Greek Sports, accessed December 22, 2024, https://fdz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/cynisca/items/show/107.

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