Ovid's Literary Loves

Ovid's Literary Loves
Author: Barbara Weiden Boyd
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780472107599

Brings the Amores into the forefront of scholarly discussion

Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores

Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores
Author: Ellen Oliensis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2019-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108482309

Offers detailed reading of the Amores, oriented toward the writer's and reader's pleasure, that reframes the discussion around elegy and identity.

Ovid: Ars Amatoria, Book III

Ovid: Ars Amatoria, Book III
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 8
Release: 2003
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521813709

This is a full-scale commentary devoted to the third book of Ovid's Ars Amatoria. It includes an Introduction, a revision of E. J. Kenney's Oxford text of the book, and detailed line-by-line and section-by-section commentary on the language and ideas of the text. Combining traditional philological scholarship with some of the concerns of more recent critics, both Introduction and commentary place particular emphasis on: the language of the text; the relationship of the book to the didactic, 'erotodidactic' and elegiac traditions; Ovid's usurpation of the lena's traditional role of erotic instructor of women; the poet's handling of the controversial subjects of cosmetics and personal adornment; and the literary and political significances of Ovid's unexpected emphasis in the text of Ars III on restraint and 'moderation'. The book will be of interest to all postgraduates and scholars working on Augustan poetry.

The Love Poems

The Love Poems
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 265
Release: 1990
Genre: Love poetry, English
ISBN: 9780192821942

Ovid's Erotic Poems

Ovid's Erotic Poems
Author: Ovid
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2014-10-22
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 081224625X

The most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is perhaps best known for his oft-imitated Metamorphoses. But the Roman poet also wrote lively and lewd verse on the subjects of love, sex, marriage, and adultery—a playful parody of the earnest erotic poetry traditions established by his literary ancestors. The Amores, Ovid's first completed book of poetry, explores the conventional mode of erotic elegy with some subversive and silly twists: the poetic narrator sets up a lyrical altar to an unattainable woman only to knock it down by poking fun at her imperfections. Ars Amatoria takes the form of didactic verse in which a purportedly mature and experienced narrator instructs men and women alike on how to best play their hands at the long con of love. Ovid's Erotic Poems offers a modern English translation of the Amores and Ars Amatoria that retains the irreverent wit and verve of the original. Award-winning poet Len Krisak captures the music of Ovid's richly textured Latin meters through rhyming couplets that render the verse as playful and agile as it was meant to be. Sophisticated, satirical, and wildly self-referential, Ovid's Erotic Poems is not just a wickedly funny send-up of romantic and sexual mores but also a sharp critique of literary technique and poetic convention.

The Offense of Love

The Offense of Love
Author: Ovid
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 0299302040

This work brings together a selection of the author's articles, written over a period of 20 years, observing the place of alcohol in American culture. The text also contains several ethnographic studies of bars in San Diego and a study of court-mandated programmes for drink drivers.

The Art of Love

The Art of Love
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012
Genre: Didactic poetry, Latin
ISBN: 0099518821

Tells about where to meet a new beau, how to handle illicit affairs and how to maintain your allure.

Ovid in Love

Ovid in Love
Author: Ovid
Publisher:
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2000
Genre: Love poetry, Latin
ISBN: 9780719556043

A translation of Ovid's Amores, which does not set out to be literal but to reproduce the original as closely as possible in our own idiom. Passion, sensuality, frustration, euphoria, anger, jealousy and happiness mingle in poems which nonetheless never take themselves seriously.