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

by Gibson, Roy; Green, Steven; Sharrock, Alison

• ISBN13: 9780199277773
• ISBN10: 019927777X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Roy Gibson is Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester. Steven Green is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds. Alison Sharrock is Professor of Classics at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. xi
Lessons in Love: Fifty Years of Scholarship on the Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris	p. 1
Poetics
Love in Parentheses: Digression and Narrative Hierarchy in Ovid's Erotodidactic Poems	p. 23
Staging the Reader Response: Ovid and His 'Contemporary Audience' in Ars and Remedia	p. 40
Vixisset Phyllis, si me foret usa magistro: Erotodidaxis and Intertextuality	p. 54
Erotics
In Ovid with Bed (Ars 2 and 3)	p. 77
Women on Top: Livia and Andromache	p. 96
Ovid, Augustus, and the Politics of Moderation in Ars Amatoria 3	p. 121
The Art of Remedia Amoris: Unlearning to Love?	p. 143
Lethaeus Amor: The Art of Forgetting	p. 166
Politics
Erotic Aetiology: Romulus, Augustus, and the Rape of the Sabine Women	p. 193
The Art of Making Oneself Hated: Rethinking (Anti-)Augustanism in Ovid's Ars Amatoria	p. 216
Ars Amatoria Romana: Ovid on Love as a Cultural Construct	p. 235
Ovid's Evolution	p. 252
Reception
Paelignus, puto, dixerat poeta (Mart. 2. 41. 2): Martial's Intertextual Dialogue with Ovid's Erotodidactic Poems	p. 279
Sex Education: Ovidian Erotodidactic in the Classroom	p. 298
Ovid in Defeat? On the reception of Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris	p. 318
Timeline (Genevieve Liveley)	p. 338
References	p. 341
Indexes	p. 361
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