Ovids Erotic Poems

Author : Ovid
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081224625X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ovid's Erotic Poems written by Ovid and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0141913940
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Erotic Poems written by Ovid and published by Random House. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099518821
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Love written by Ovid and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells about where to meet a new beau, how to handle illicit affairs and how to maintain your allure.

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amores written by Ovid and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallel latin & English texts.

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Love Poems written by Ovid and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Shakespeare's lifetime, Henry IV was his most popular play. Today, Sir John Falstaff still towers above Shakespeare's other comic inventions. This edition considers the play in the context of various critical approaches, offers a history of the play in performance from Shakespeare's time to ours, and provides useful information on its historical background. Readers will also find detailed commentary on individual words and phrases, and selections from Shakespeare's sources.

Author : Ellen Oliensis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108482309
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores written by Ellen Oliensis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers detailed reading of the Amores, oriented toward the writer's and reader's pleasure, that reframes the discussion around elegy and identity.

Author : Caroline A. Perkins
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080618633X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ovid's Amores, Book One written by Caroline A. Perkins and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students of Latin have long enjoyed the poetry of Ovid, but his love poems, aptly titled Amores, have proved more difficult to introduce into the classroom. Curricular changes and increased appreciation of sophisticated love poetry are finally making room for the Amores. This edition of the first book of the Amores—the only one available for both intermediate- and advanced-level classes—addresses the needs of students of varying abilities and experience, helping them comprehend, and more fully enjoy, the rich complexities of Ovid's poetry. In their introduction to the volume, Maureen B. Ryan and Caroline A. Perkins recount Ovid's career as a poet, describe the elegiac genre, and explain elegiac meter and style. For the Latin text, they briefly introduce each poem, acquainting students with relevant subject matter and themes. Their commentary provides helpful notes clarifying grammatical constructions, word order, ellipsis, and other complexities of the Latin language that can challenge even the most experienced student. On the assumption that students will gain skills as they work through each poem, Ryan and Perkins give extensive and repeated assistance at the beginning of the text, tapering off as the student's facility increases. Throughout their commentary, they highlight thematic points of interest; explain mythological, cultural, and literary allusions; and stress the importance of Ovid's literary innovations. In addition to the critical apparatus accompanying each poem, this volume features a glossary of literary terms, a comprehensive Latin-to-English vocabulary, and an up-do-date bibliography.

Author : P.J. Davis
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ovid and Augustus written by P.J. Davis and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2006-10-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521813709
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ovid: Ars Amatoria, Book III written by Ovid and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a full-scale commentary devoted to the third book of Ovid's Ars Amatoria. It includes an Introduction, a revision of E. J. Kenney's Oxford text of the book, and detailed line-by-line and section-by-section commentary on the language and ideas of the text. Combining traditional philological scholarship with some of the concerns of more recent critics, both Introduction and commentary place particular emphasis on: the language of the text; the relationship of the book to the didactic, 'erotodidactic' and elegiac traditions; Ovid's usurpation of the lena's traditional role of erotic instructor of women; the poet's handling of the controversial subjects of cosmetics and personal adornment; and the literary and political significances of Ovid's unexpected emphasis in the text of Ars III on restraint and 'moderation'. The book will be of interest to all postgraduates and scholars working on Augustan poetry.

Author : Thea S. Thorsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107040418
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ovid's Early Poetry written by Thea S. Thorsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important new exploration of the early poetry of Ovid, one of the greatest poets in the Roman and Western tradition.