Ars Amatoria; or, The Art Of Love by Ovid

"Ars Amatoria; or, The Art Of Love" by Ovid is an instructional elegy written in 2 AD. This three-book guide offers Romans practical advice on romance: men learn where to find women and how to keep them, while women discover strategies for winning and maintaining love. Written in elegant couplets and filled with mythology and everyday observations, Ovid's playful manual became so influential that medieval scholars dubbed the entire era the "Ovidian epoch," treating his tongue-in-cheek instructions as serious academic philosophy for centuries. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Ovid, 44 BCE-18?
Translator Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1816-1878
Title Ars Amatoria; or, The Art Of Love
Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Amatoria
Credits Produced by David Widger from page images generously
provided by the Internet Archive
Reading Level Reading ease score: 79.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature
Subject Latin poetry -- Translations into English
Subject Latin poetry -- Adaptations
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EBook-No. 47677
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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