Ars Amatoria ("the Art of Love"): Illustrated Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781519592279)

The Ars Amatoria is a Lehrgedicht, a didactic elegiac poem in three books, in which Ovid teaches the arts of love. Book I addresses men and teaches them how to seduce women. Book II, also geared toward men, teaches how to keep a lover. Book III addresses women and teaches seduction techniques. The first book opens with an invocation to Venus, in which Ovid establishes himself as a praeceptor amoris

Author: James Lewis May, Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
ISBN-10: 1519592272
ISBN-13: 9781519592279
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2015
Pages: 62
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.13d