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 | | The Heroides were composed in the form of fictional letters and have been found to contain elements of epic, elegy, bucolic and tragedy. |
 | | This is all to say that elements of the Heroides are strongly reminiscent of early examples of propemptic poetry, and what might appear to be unnecessary and excessive details, and other scholars have seen them as such, may instead be reminiscent of another tradition. |
 | | One of the many complaints levelled against the Heroides bymodern commentators is the lengthy review of past events, events which would be well known to the addressee of the letter (Vessey, CQ (1969) 352). |
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