Ars Amatoria, Book I by Ovid

Ars Amatoria, Book I by Ovid

Ovid's Ars Amatoria has met with astonishingly varied fortunes down the centuries. Ten years after publication the book became a reason, or more probably a pretext, for the author's banishment from Rome. It was removed from public libraries, and more recently the poem suffered a virtual embargo in schools and universities. This is the first detailed English commentary on any part of the poem. Examined afresh, it emerges as the wittiest of Ovid's love poems, turning upside down the attitudes and conventions of orthodox love elegy. The work is full of psychological insight and is richly embroidered with details of contemporary Roman social and political life. This new paperback edition intends to bring out the spirit of provocative frivolity which was undeniably meant to irritate Roman traditionalists. The text of Kenney's Oxford Classical Text is reproduced and supplemented with a full introduction to the style and historical background the poem, as well as with a full commentary and appendices.

'Teachers and students alike will be delighted with the effectiveness with which Hollis places the Ars Amatoria within its proper cultural milieu' Classical Journal
'This is a most valuable ... aid to students of [Ovid's] erotic poems.' Hermathena
'contains a clear and up-to-date introduction and an intelligent, even humorous commentary in the best traditions of English literary criticism' Arctos

Ovid was a Roman poet who wrote about love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. He is known as the master of the elegiac couplet.

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ISBN 13	9780198147367
ISBN 10	0198147368
Title	Ars Amatoria, Book I
Author	Ovid
Series	Clarendon Paperbacks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1989-09-21
Number of pages	196
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