Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector

Download or read book Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector written by Christine (de Pisan) and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine de Pizan (1364-?1430) was the first French woman poet to make her living by the pen, and the first female interpreter of classical myths; she held enormous power in the French court and influenced late medieval culture in France and in England in a number of ways. The Letter of Othea to Hector, her most popular work, is a series of a hundred verse texts about a mythological figure or moment, with prose moral glosses explaining how to read the myth in order to improve human character. It is translated here with introduction, notes, and interpretative essay.