The article offers criticism of the poem "Heroides," by Ovid. It explores the use of the words of women that are directly stated and independent of a male narrator. It cites the last individual letter "Heroides 15," in which the female voice and supposed writer is the Greek poet Sappho. It also presents the Roman woman writer Sulpicia, who imitates Sappho. Sulpicia was said to be a female author of erotic epigrams.