International audienceThis article deals with the reception of Ovid's Heroides in the General estoria of Alfonso X. It studies essentially two aspects of the transmission of the This article deals with the reception of Ovid's Heroides in the General estoria of Alfonso X. It studies essentially two aspects of the transmission of the Ovidian text in the Alfonsine compilation; on the one hand, the reception of the exegetic matter or the gloss of the letters as the result of the medieval lectio, i.e. the different accessus and incipit that are found in the 12th and 13th centuries manuscripts; on the other hand, the internal translation and resemanticizing processes of the Latin text when transposed into Romance languages. The connection of the ...