The Art of Love

Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-927777-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 677 g

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 collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together many of the leading figures in the field of Latin literature and Ovidian studies from the British Isles, Germany, Italy, and the United States. It offers a range of perspectives on the poetics,
politics, and erotics of the poems, beginning with a critical survey of recent research, and concluding with papers on the ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the poems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibson, Roy

Green, Steven

Sharrock, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Roy Gibson is Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester.

Steven Green is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds.

Alison Sharrock is Professor of Classics at the University of Manchester.