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| Original Title: | Ars amatoria |
| ISBN: | 0375761179 (ISBN13: 9780375761171) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Ovid
Paperback | Pages: 199 pages Rating: 3.83 | 4608 Users | 296 Reviews
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Dear Ovid,You made me look like a sex pest.
I was visiting a city for the day with a friend of mine; it was cold outside and we’d taken refuge in this really quaint bookstore. It wasn’t one of the chain ones, but a really quirky independent bookstore that had shelves packed with tomes and all sorts of literary marvels.
I spent a large amount of money in there Ovid. I bought things at random without really paying attention to what they were: I just wanted them all, you know how it is. I saw this nice big slip cased edition of your poetry so, naturally, I thought I’d have that. When I took it to the cash register the woman behind the till was smirking at me. I had no idea why at the time. I thought she was laughing at the amount of books I bought not the book I bought.
This is where it gets really awkward Ovid. During the train journey back home my friend asked me what books I bought. So I innocently showed her. I got all my books out of my bag and we sat there looking at them. She opened my new explicitly illustrated copy of The Art of Love that showcased instructional images and poetry about the pleasures of oral sex. Our friendship has never been quite the same since. You could have warned me Ovid. I honestly thought we were pals.
I can’t put pictures in this letter, but you know the type they are: they are essentially pornography albeit that of a colourful and artistic variety. Just the sort of thing you like. They’re not the type you show your friends on a public train (if at all).
So thanks Ovid for making me look like a weird sex pest that day with my big book of poetry porn. Speaking of which, I found it quite bland. I’m sure it would be fun for those who have little imagination.
All the best from your extremely embarrassed former friend,
Sean
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| Title | : | The Art of Love |
| Author | : | Ovid |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 199 pages |
| Published | : | October 8th 2002 by Modern Library (first published -1) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Classics. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Romance |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 4608 Users | 296 ReviewsComment On Epithetical Books The Art of Love
This is a fine translation in modern English. It's not colloquial, but it's readable. The one problem I have with it is that it uses a rhyming scheme. The "sense" of the Latin is there, and all the Greco-Roman myth is there, but the English takes a lot of liberties with the Latin. The choices the translator makes are generally good, but don't expect a word-by-word translation.'Should anyone here not know the art of love,read this, and learn by reading how to love.'Well, I could use the advice.Part I - general advice- you have to actively look for your love, but she could be just about anywhere, the streets, the theater ('They come to see, they come to be seen as well: the place is fatal to chaste modesty') or especially the races, where you can sneak some free contact in the tight crowds!- then you have to win her, and 'every one of them can be won'. But beware! A
A very funny and light read. You can see why he was exiled by the conservative Augustus. Always enjoyable to read about the city life, parties, etc. His tips for males and females were great. If only I could read the work in the original.
This slender volume is perhaps the wittiest, most sophisticated, outrageously amusing instructional handbook of all time. It is a parody of a didactic treatise, a three book exposition on how to play the game of love and come out a winner. Ovid is a literary provocateur, a skillful subversive whose ironic gamesmanship never lets up. Similes comparing women at Roman theaters to swarming ants or bees turn Vergil's Aeneid (along with the Roman values it celebrates) upside down, and the tale of
I think I understand why Ovid got exiled. On a separate note, I'll keep Book 3 in mind when pursuing potential partners especially his advice for short girls. Who know Ovid was a beauty guru too?
As much as I loved and plan to reread Les Metamorphoses, I can't say the same about this one.Even if I make abstraction of the disturbing and unfair sexism in Ovid's stupid lessons on love, and give him a "written 2000 years ago" pass, the book is still cheap.I don't think he put too much effort into it at all. It was as though he drank a few glasses of wine, played with himself a little and then grabbed a plume and ink or whatever and made himself laugh with these lessons.Uh, Ovid, LOVE isn't
I like this better than pornography.
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