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The Love Poems
Ovid
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Description for The Love Poems
paperback. The elegant verse and subtle observation of the Amores, The Art of Love, and The Cures of Love made their author the talk of Rome. Ovid saw love as a game at which both sexes could play without getting hurt - as long as they stuck to his rules, but primarily he wrote these sparkling and often erotic poems to entertain, and after two thousand years they still give enormous pleasure. Translator(s): Melville, A. D. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
Ovid's love-poetry was typically original and innovative. His witty analysis in the Amores (Loves) of the elegiac relationship develops with relentless irony its essential paradox - love as simultaneously fulfilling and destructive - to its logical conclusion: definitive disestablishment of the poet-lover's role as presented by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius. In its place he went on to offer in the Ars Amatoria (Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love) an equally brilliant presentation of an alternative and more realistic conception of love as a game at which both sexes can play without getting hurt - ... Read more
Ovid's love-poetry was typically original and innovative. His witty analysis in the Amores (Loves) of the elegiac relationship develops with relentless irony its essential paradox - love as simultaneously fulfilling and destructive - to its logical conclusion: definitive disestablishment of the poet-lover's role as presented by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius. In its place he went on to offer in the Ars Amatoria (Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love) an equally brilliant presentation of an alternative and more realistic conception of love as a game at which both sexes can play without getting hurt - ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199540334
SKU
9780199540334
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Reviews for The Love Poems
A 'a new, faithful yet engaging translation ... Ovid was a brilliant, innovative, elegant, witty and ironic poet, who has entertained readers for thousands of years and this new version will give pleasure to many more.' Day by Day 'Melville has worked a miracle ... It is difficult to imagine that there will ever be an English version so ... Read more