Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector

Translated with introduction notes and interpretative essay 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.