The Art of Love

Name: The Art of Love
Author: Ovid
ISBN: 9780191515446

by Ovid

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The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love), which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted great influence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the...

First published 1929388 pages

871.01

Category: Poetry
Priority: Must-Read
Author works: 4
Editions known: 4

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 871.01
Library of Congress (LCC): PA6519.A84 .A77 2006PA6519.A8PA6519.A84.A77 2006

Subjects

Didactic poetry, history and criticismErotic literature, history and criticismHistory and criticismLatin Didactic poetryLatin Erotic poetryLatin poetry, history and criticismLove in literatureOvid, 43 b.c.-17 a.d. or 18 a.d.Seduction in literature

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ISBN 9780191515446English

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First published1929

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