The Art of Love: Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris

by Roy Gibson, Steven Green, Alison Sharrock

Overview

The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love), which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted great influence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the first collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together many of the leading figures in the field of Latin literature and Ovidian studies from the British Isles, Germany, Italy, and the United States. It offers a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics of the poems, beginning with a critical survey of recent research, and concluding with papers on the ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the poems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199277773
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2007
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	8.21(w) x 6.11(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Roy Gibson is Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester. Steven Green is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds. Alison Sharrock is Professor of Classics at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

1. Lessons in Love: Fifty Years of Scholarship on the Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris, Steven J. GreenI. Poetics2. Love in Parentheses: Digression and Narrative Hierarchy in Ovid's Erotodidactic Poems, Alison Sharrock3. Staging the Reader Response: Ovid and his ‘Contemporary Audience' in Ars and Remedia, Niklas Holzberg4. Vixisset Phyllis, si me foret usa magistro: Erotodidaxis and Intertextuality, Duncan F. KennedyII. Erotics5. In Ovid with Bed (Ars 2 and 3), John Henderson6. Women on Top: Livia and Andromache, Alessandro Barchiesi7. Ovid, Augustus, and the Politics of Moderation in Ars Amatoria 3, Roy K. Gibson8. The Art of Remedia Amoris: Unlearning to Love, Gianpiero Rosati9. Lethaeus Amor: The Art of Forgetting, Philip HardieIII. Politics10. Erotic Aetiology: Romulus, Augustus, and the Rape of the Sabine Women, Mario Labate11. The Art of Making Onself Hated: Rethinking (Anti-)Augustanism in Ovid's Ars Amatoria, Sergio Casali12. Ara Amatoria Romana: Ovid on Love as a Cultural Construct, Katharina Volk13. Ovid's Evolution, M. Myerowitz LevineIV. Reception14. Paelignus, puto, dixerat poeta (Mart.2.41.2): Martial's Intertexual Dialogue with Ovid's Erotodidactic Poems, Markus Janka15. Sex Education: Ovidian Erotodidactic in the Classroom, Ralph Hexter16. Ovid in Defeat? On the Reception of Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris, Genevieve Liveley

Editorial Reviews

"This is a coherent, sophisticated, and substantive collection that will no doubt set the terms of debate in the section of Ovid's oeuvre going forword." —Classical Outlook

"Gibson, Green, and Sharrock deserve high praise for this splendid compilation free from critical gobbledygook and un-Roman flights of literary fancy. Beautifully produced, the book should become standard reading for those studying Ovid's love poems. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." —Choice

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