Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris
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Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: **LATIN TEXT ONLY**
A cornerstone of classical Latin literature, this scholarly Oxford Classical Texts edition presents four of Ovid's most celebrated elegiac and didactic works in a single authoritative volume. Amores chronicles the poet's witty and passionate love affairs with the fictitious Corinna, establishing Ovid's signature tone of playful irreverence and sophisticated irony. Medicamina Faciei Femineae offers a fragmentary but fascinating didactic poem on cosmetics and feminine beauty, while Ars Amatoria instructs readers — with audacious humor and rhetorical brilliance — in the art of seduction, treating love as a skill to be mastered through cunning and charm. Remedia Amoris then argues the antidote to passion with equal wit, presenting a mock-serious guide to falling out of love. Edited by the distinguished classicist E. J. Kenney, this critical edition presents a meticulously established Latin text with a full critical apparatus, making it an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and serious readers of Roman poetry.
Author: P. Ovidi Naso (Ovid), Edited By E. J. Kenney
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Oxford Classical Texts (Oxford University Press)
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: **LATIN TEXT ONLY**
A cornerstone of classical Latin literature, this scholarly Oxford Classical Texts edition presents four of Ovid's most celebrated elegiac and didactic works in a single authoritative volume. Amores chronicles the poet's witty and passionate love affairs with the fictitious Corinna, establishing Ovid's signature tone of playful irreverence and sophisticated irony. Medicamina Faciei Femineae offers a fragmentary but fascinating didactic poem on cosmetics and feminine beauty, while Ars Amatoria instructs readers — with audacious humor and rhetorical brilliance — in the art of seduction, treating love as a skill to be mastered through cunning and charm. Remedia Amoris then argues the antidote to passion with equal wit, presenting a mock-serious guide to falling out of love. Edited by the distinguished classicist E. J. Kenney, this critical edition presents a meticulously established Latin text with a full critical apparatus, making it an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and serious readers of Roman poetry.