Ovid: Ars Amatoria, Book III, Libro 3

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Cambridge University Press, 2003 - 446 páginas
Book 3 of Ovid's Ars Amatoria teaches women how to catch and keep men and is here presented in the first full modern edition, based on the revised Oxford Classical Text by E. J. Kenney. In his extensive introduction and commentary Dr Gibson responds to recent developments in interpreting didactic poetry and the treatment of women by classical au thors, especially the Latin elegiac poets. He particularly explores the question of how the interests of male readers are covertly served in a book addressed to women.

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Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC--AD 17/18), known as Ovid. Born of an equestrian family in Sulmo, Ovid was educated in rhetoric in Rome but gave it up for poetry. He counted Horace and Propertius among his friends and wrote an elegy on the death of Tibullus. He became the leading poet of Rome but was banished in 8 A.D. by an edict of Augustus to remote Tomis on the Black Sea because of a poem and an indiscretion. Miserable in provincial exile, he died there ten years later. His brilliant, witty, fertile elegiac poems include Amores (Loves), Heroides (Heroines), and Ars Amatoris (The Art of Love), but he is perhaps best known for the Metamorphoses, a marvelously imaginative compendium of Greek mythology where every story alludes to a change in shape. Ovid was admired and imitated throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Jonson knew his works well. His mastery of form, gift for narration, and amusing urbanity are irresistible.

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