Includes: The Amores (the Loves), Ars Amatoria (the Art of Love), Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love) and the fragmentary Medicamina Faciei Feminae (Women's Facial Cosmetics). The Love Books OvidĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats.

GradeSaver, 6 June 2019 Web.Buy the entire collection for only £15. Next Section Character List Previous Section About The Art of Love How To Cite in MLA Format Smith, Dmitri, et al. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. For the time period, he challenges some commonly-held gender roles. Again, Ovid concludes with an overview of sex from her end. She should, however, always stay faithful to him, merely creating the illusion of a circumstance deserving his jealousy. To accomplish this, she shouldn't devote all of her attention to pleasing him but instead create situations in which he becomes jealous and stays focused on her.

The woman's one and only job is to keep her lover interested. Ovid advises them in all the same matters covered in the first two books, but this time he approaches it from the opposite perspective. Written some time after the first two, Book III is addressed to the ladies. Maintaining decorum, he concludes the book with a fairly detailed overview of sex: various positions, techniques, and admonishment to try to orgasm together. The perspective he insists is necessary is one of military strictness, obeying and remaining faithful to your girl. From dinner parties to bed, he covers the various situations which couples generally find themselves facing. He counsels men on sex, stoking the flame of passion, manners, and thoughtfulness. Here, Ovid starts to flirt with some racy topics. Aside from basic attraction, Ovid discusses good places to meet women such as the theater.īook II is concerned with keeping a woman satisfied. Basically, he says that you have to be a person that you'd want to love in order to attract a lover. Using various techniques, he tells men how to comport themselves in a way to be desirable to women. Book I is addressed to men and concerned with the wooing of a woman. Resembling the Kama Sutra, Ovid's compilation The Art of Love was written in three volumes. Written by Dmitri Smith and other people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.

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