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Record Nr.

UNISA996201327703316

Autore

Ovid <43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., >

Titolo

Art of love : Cosmetics ; Remedies for love ; Ibis ; Walnut-tree ; Sea fishing ; Consolation / / Ovid ; with an English translation by J.H. Mozley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-674-99255-5

Edizione

[New edition /]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Loeb Classical Library ; ; 232

Disciplina

871/.01

Soggetti

Incantations

Didactic poetry, Latin

Erotic poetry, Latin - Translations into English

Seduction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

In the didactic poetry of Face Cosmetics, Art of Love, and Remedies for Love, Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE) demonstrates abstrusity and wit. His Ibis is an elegiac curse-poem. Nux, Halieutica, and Consolatio ad Liviam are poems now judged not to be by Ovid.