03466nam 2200637 450 991046513260332120210427023059.00-8122-0992-310.9783/9780812209921(CKB)2560000000305144(EBL)3442421(SSID)ssj0001596802(PQKBManifestationID)16297454(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001596802(PQKBWorkID)14885743(PQKB)10672523(MiAaPQ)EBC3442421(DE-B1597)450984(OCoLC)891458480(DE-B1597)9780812209921(Au-PeEL)EBL3442421(CaPaEBR)ebr10932056(CaONFJC)MIL682695(EXLCZ)99256000000030514420140924h20142014 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrOvid's erotic poems "Amores" and "Ars amatoria" /translated by Len Krisak ; introduction by Sarah RudenFirst edition.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,2014.©20141 online resource (232 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-51413-5 0-8122-4625-X Front matter --Contents --Introduction by Sarah Ruden --Translator’s Preface --Book I --Book II --Book III --Book I --Book II --Book III --Notes --Glossary --AcknowledgmentsThe 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.Love poetry, LatinTranslations into EnglishErotic poetry, LatinTranslations into EnglishElectronic books.Love poetry, LatinErotic poetry, Latin871/.01Ovidauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut154954Krisak Len1948-Ruden SarahMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465132603321Ovid's erotic poems2467363UNINA