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Héroïde, the Glossary

Index Héroïde

A héroïde is a term in French literature for a letter in verse, written under the name of a hero or famous author, derived from the Heroides by Ovid.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 20 relations: Aeneas, Alexis-François Artaud de Montor, Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet, Charles-Pierre Colardeau, Claude Joseph Dorat, Dido, Dithyramb, Elegy, Epic poetry, Epistle, Heroides, Jean-François Marmontel, Nicolas Gilbert, Nicolas Thomas Barthe, Ode, Ovid, Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps, Poetics, Stanza, Tragedy.

  2. French poetry
  3. Ovid

Aeneas

In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (from) was a Trojan hero, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite (equivalent to the Roman Venus).

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Alexis-François Artaud de Montor

Alexis-François Artaud De Montor (21 July 1772 – 12 November 1849) was a diplomat and historian.

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Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet

Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet, nicknamed "le jeune", (17 November 1735 in Fontainebleau – 7 June 1769, drowned in the Guadalquivir, in Córdoba) was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist.

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Charles-Pierre Colardeau

Charles-Pierre Colardeau (12 October 1732 in Janville – 7 April 1776 in Paris) was a French poet.

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Claude Joseph Dorat

Claude Joseph Dorat (31 December 1734 – 29 April 1780) was a French writer, also known as Le Chevalier Dorat.

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Dido

Dido, also known as Elissa (Ἔλισσα), was the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage (located in Tunisia), in 814 BC.

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Dithyramb

The dithyramb (διθύραμβος, dithyrambos) was an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility; the term was also used as an epithet of the god.

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Elegy

An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead.

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Epic poetry

An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.

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Epistle

An epistle is a writing directed or sent to a person or group of people, usually an elegant and formal didactic letter.

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Heroides

The Heroides (The Heroines), or Epistulae Heroidum (Letters of Heroines), is a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid in Latin elegiac couplets and presented as though written by a selection of aggrieved heroines of Greek and Roman mythology in address to their heroic lovers who have in some way mistreated, neglected, or abandoned them.

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Jean-François Marmontel

Jean-François Marmontel (11 July 1723 – 31 December 1799) was a French historian, writer and a member of the Encyclopédistes movement.

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Nicolas Gilbert

Nicolas Gilbert (born 1979) is a Canadian composer from Montreal, Quebec.

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Nicolas Thomas Barthe

Nicolas-Thomas Barthe (1734, Marseille – 17 June 1785, Paris) was an 18th-century French poet and playwright.

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Ode

An ode (from ōidḗ) is a type of lyric poetry, with its origins in Ancient Greece.

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Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.

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Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps

Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps, born in 1689 in Paris, where he died on March 12, 1761, was a playwright, theater historian, libertine novelist and French translator.

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Poetics

Poetics is the study or theory of poetry, specifically the study or theory of device, structure, form, type, and effect with regards to poetry, though usage of the term can also refer to literature broadly.

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Stanza

In poetry, a stanza (from Italian stanza) is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation.

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Tragedy

Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character or cast of characters.

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See also

French poetry

Ovid

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Héroïde