Ovid was remarkable for the attention he paid to women in his writing, as most works from ancient times were composed from a male perspective, often with ignorance and prejudice towards women. While some women wrote in their own voices in Greco-Roman times, Ovid was the first male writer to write from a woman's point of view. In his collection of poems called Heroides, Ovid recreated letters from 18 heroic women of mythology and 3 of their male partners, demonstrating an immense leap of imagination in Roman society to see from a woman's perspective.