The Art of Love Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris [Hardcover]

The Art of Lovecelebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2.Ars Amatoria(The Art of Love) andRemedia Amoris(Cures for Love), which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted great influence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the first collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together many of the leading figures in the field of Latin literature and Ovidian studies from the British Isles, Germany, Italy, and the United States. It offers a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics of the poems, beginning with a critical survey of recent research, and concluding with papers on the ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the poems.

1. Lessons in Love: Fifty Years of Scholarship on the Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris,Steven J. Green
I. Poetics
2. Love in Parentheses: Digression and Narrative Hierarchy in Ovid's Erotodidactic Poems,Alison Sharrock
3. Staging the Reader Response: Ovid and his `Contemporary Audience' in Ars and Remedia,Niklas Holzberg
4. Vixisset Phyllis, si me foret usa magistro: Erotodidaxis and Intertextuality,Duncan F. Kennedy
II. Erotics
5. In Ovid with Bed (Ars 2 and 3),John Henderson
6. Women on Top: Livia and Andromache,Alessandro Barchiesi
7. Ovid, Augustus, and the Politics of Moderation in Ars Amatoria 3,Roy K. Gibson
8. The Art of Remedia Amoris: Unlearning to Love,Gianpiero Rosati
9. Lethaeus Amor: The Art of Forgetting,Philip Hardie
III. Politics
10. Erotic Aetiology: Romulus, Augustus, and the Rape of the Sabine Women,Mario Labl#.