Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love") (in three Books)
By Ovid
- Release Date: 2010-01-01
- Genre: Poetry
Description
The Ars amatoria (Latin: 'Art of Love') is
a poem in three books by the Roman poet Ovid. It claims to provide teaching in
three areas of general preoccupation: how and where to find girls (and husbands)
in Rome, how to seduce them, and how to prevent others from stealing them.
Remedia Amoris (Love's Remedy or The Cure for Love) is a
814 line poem in Latin by the Roman poet Ovid. In this poem, Ovid offers advices
and strategies to avoid being hurt by love feelings , or to fall out of love,
with a stoician overtone.
Medicamina Faciei Feminae ("Women's Facial
Cosmetics"), also known as The Art of Beauty, 100 lines
surviving. Published ca. 5 BC.
— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Table of Contents
Ovid's Art of Love
Book I
Book II
Book III
Ovid's Remedy of
Love
Ovid's Art of Beauty
The Court of Love, a Tale from
Chaucer
History of Love, by Charles Hopkins
Admiration
Perseus and
Andromeda
Desire
Pygmalion
Hippomenes and Atalanta
Jealousy
Cephalus and Procris
Despair
Orpheus and Eurydice
The Parting
The Parting of Achilles and Deidamia
Absence
Leander's Epistle to
Hero
Narcissus and Echo
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
