Excerpt from On the Sources of Ovid's Heroides I, III, VII, XII: A Dissertation Presented to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University for the Degree of Doctor of PhilosophyOur difficulties in investigating the sources of an author like Ovid are further increased by the loss of so many books which he read, especially out of the Alexandrian literature. Ovid himself has been used by some scholars to reconstruct the plots of such lost The plan of the Heroides renders it possible to use this argument as far as the essential points of the story are concerned. The details cannot be obtained with any certainty.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.