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 Erotic Poems

The Erotic Poems
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 714
Release: 2004-04-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0141913940

This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The intimate and vulnerable nature of the poet revealed in these early poems vanishes in the notorious Art of Love, in which he provides a knowing and witty guide to sexual conquest - a work whose alleged obscenity led to Ovid's banishment from Rome in AD 8. This volume also includes the Cures for Love, with instructions on how to terminate a love affair, and On Facial Treatment for Ladies, an incomplete poem on the art of cosmetics.


Ovid's Erotic Poems

Ovid's Erotic Poems
Author: Ovid
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2014-09-16
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0812209923

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.


Ovid and Augustus

Ovid and Augustus
Author: P.J. Davis
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2006-10-20
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Deals with one of the most contentious issues in the study of Roman literature - the relationship between Augustan literary texts and Augustan politics. This work reads Ovid's early works against their political context, and argues that they challenge the Augustan regime's ideology and resist the Augustan conception of what it was to be Roman.


Amores

Amores
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1968
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Parallel latin & English texts.


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.


The Love Poems

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


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's Early Poetry

Ovid's Early Poetry
Author: Thea S. Thorsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2014-12-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107040418

An important new exploration of the early poetry of Ovid, one of the greatest poets in the Roman and Western tradition.