...), Ars Amatoria (Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love), a meeting of love-elegy and the popular ancient tradition of didactic poetry. The Amores was the collection that launched Ovid’s poetic career, and it set the terms for the rest of it, marking him out as the leading proponent of elegiac...

... and other poets. Ars Amatoria Ars Amatori Catullus Julius Caesar 357–96 Iulius Remedia Amoris 397–440 371 385–8 Tristia Augustus Thais 362 Amores 339 ff 359–60 Martial 417–19 429–432 437–8 385 387 Ars Amatoria didactic Ovid Rounding off Book 2 of his Ars Amatoria...

...This chapter sees both the Leges Iuliae and the Ars Amatoria as creative attempts to redraw the boundaries for different groups of women. Focussing on two named individuals – the historical ‘first lady’ Livia and the mythological Andromache – it demonstrates...

... society, at a (broadly) specific time, namely contemporary Augustan Rome. Ars Amatori Ars Amatoria amor Amor Lucretius populus Georgics et passi Virgil Annals Medicamina Faciei Femineae SuetoniusAugustus ‘digressions’ mythological Andromache Ars Amatoria love Augustus Rome Early in Jane...

...This chapter charts the curious history of Ovid's erotodidactic works as school texts over the past thousand years, in which the poems became popular for either their (innocent) Latinity or their raunchy messages. Ars Amatori Tristia Remedia Amoris Ars Amatoria Heroides amor Amor Odes...

... narratives, both visual and literary. The final section examines a famous scene in the Iliad, the Dios Apatē, when Hera tricks Zeus to distract him from the war, and argues that this is an early Ars Amatoria, a didactic type of narrative, remnant...

... Heroides, Ars Amatoria, and Metamorphoses in order to articulate a vision of a pedagogical enterprise that on the one hand privileged translation and transformation and on the other hand attempted to regulate the bodies of Tudor schoolboys. In doing so, I explore the complex...

... that fish, too, are characterized by craftiness and deceit: pursuer and pursued are equally matched and engaged, as it were, in a battle of wits. This is reminiscent of the hunting, fowling, and fishing of the Ars amatoria. Re-semanticizing a dead metaphor is a typical Ovidian move...

...This chapter examines Ovid's poems of erotic instruction, Ars amatoria (‘Art of Love’, three books) and Remedia amoris (‘Remedies against Love’, one book), considering these works specifically as didactic poems. It shows how by paradoxically presenting love...

...This chapter explores thematic affinities between Grattius and Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, focusing on the connection between lover and hunter, the importance of mental skill as a complement to pure physical exertion, and the art of hunting as a civilizing force. It is argued, moreover...

...This chapter looks into the signs of abject desire in Ars Amatoria. Throughout Ovid's poetry, Phaedra and Medea are depicted as paradigms in exemplary catalogues of mythological figures meant to teach, warn, or encourage the auditor or reader. The chapter considers the destructive...

... that take love as their subject, Ovid employs parrhesia or “frank criticism,” a typically Epicurean instructional mode, to criticize Lucretian and Epicurean views on love. Throughout his Amores, Ars amatoria, and Remedia amoris, Ovid plays on the didactic...

... erotodidactic poems, the Ars amatoria and Remedia amoris, as philosophical texts, arguing, first, that these poems are very much like philosophy, in that they are influenced by philosophical doctrines and discourses popular in Ovid’s time; and second and more...

..., by contrast, is given free rein to oscillate and play with poetic possibilities. The book focuses on select passages from the poems Ars Amatoria, Heroides, and Metamorphoses. It analyzes the dynamic nature of generic categories and codes in Ovid's poetry...

...This chapter focuses on depictions of Pasiphae in the Eclogues and Ars Amatoria. In much Latin poetry, Pasiphae tends to be given a brief, frowning reference, a figure who represents in short-hand the worst excesses of female passion and deceitfulness. Yet despite...

...This chapter explores the critical scholarship on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoria over the past fifty years, and situates the present contributions into that scholarship. Ars Amatori Ars Amatoria Remedia Amoris amor Amor role playing love as decorum...

... than in opposition, in the creation of an ‘implied narrative’. It might even be argued that it is the instructional parts which are obstructive, in that they slow down the instructional momentum of the ‘digressional’ stories. Poetics Ars Amatori ‘digressions’ mythological Ars Amatoria Argonautica...

... Phyllis Demophoon 55–6 584 591–608 597 599–600 56 578 601 715–30 Rhetorica ad Herennium Epistulae 545–6 Ars Amatoria Remedia Amoris love didactic In the prologue of the Remedia Amoris Ovid protests to Cupid that he is not making war on Amor (1–4), that he is not a traitor to love (11...

... of the Emperor's Parthian campaign. Ars Amatori 361–496 Georgics Augustus Remedia Amoris Metamorphoses 351–60 370 Ars Amatoria Tristia Tiberius Livia Fasti Propertius Dio Ars Amatoria Remedia Amoris Augustus politics Rome Parthia Gaius Caesar My subtitle implies that I want to strike a balance...