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    The Ars amatoria (The Art of Love) is an instructional elegy series in three books by the ancient Roman poet Ovid. It was written in 2 AD. Book one of...
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    dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love") and Fasti. His poetry was much imitated during Late...
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    art; Fredrick, p. 159. Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.777–778; Gibson, Ars Amatoria Book 3, p. 393. Hectoreus equus (Ars Amatoria 3.777–778); Meyboom and Versluys...
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    the sixteen-line episode the weight of a brief inset myth. In Ovid's Ars Amatoria Pasiphaë is framed in zoophilic terms: Pasiphae fieri gaudebat adultera...
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    (Hecate)". Homer Odyssey viii. 361; for Ares/Mars and Thrace, see Ovid, Ars Amatoria, book ii.part xi.585, which tells the same tale: "Their captive bodies...
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    his exile was carmen et error ("a poem and an error"), probably the Ars Amatoria and a personal indiscretion or mistake. The council of the city of Rome...
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    S2CID 195025221. Ovid, Heroides, 15.35–38. Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.53. Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.643–644. Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.191–192. Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.665 ff....
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    attest its popularity, it served as a source of inspiration for Ovid's Ars Amatoria, written around 3 BC, which is partially a sex manual, and partially...
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    with these being the children that Atreus fed to Thyestes. In Ovid's Ars Amatoria, Aerope is given as one of several examples of "women's lust" being "keener"...
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    Labyrinth. Munich, London, New York: Prestel. ISBN 379132144-7. Ovid. Ars Amatoria. 2.24. A. Pedo cited by Rusten, J.S. (Autumn 1982). "Ovid, Empedocles...
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    Ruden, Sarah (2014). "Introduction" in Ovid's Erotic Poems: Amores and Ars Amatoria. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 15...
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    Publius Ovidius Naso. Amores, Epistulae, Medicamina faciei femineae, Ars amatoria, Remedia amoris. Edition by R. Ehwald; Rudolphi Merkelii; Leipzig. B...
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  • the year AD 2, recommended by the Roman poet Ovid in his famous book Ars Amatoria: So, then, my dear ones, feel the pleasure in the very marrow of your...
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    (1974), p. 368. Tela Cupidinis odit: Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.261; C.M.C. Green, "Terms of Venery: Ars Amatoria I," Transactions of the American Philological...
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  • author of the Ratiratna Pradipika Ovid, Roman author famous for the Ars Amatoria Ge Hong, Jin dynasty author of Pao-Pu Zhi Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi...
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    be no crime in my song. Did I not exclude rigorously from reading my Ars amatoria all women whom the wearing of stola and vitta protects from touch?" Such...
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    error). The poem which had angered the Emperor was apparently Ovid's Ars Amatoria, a light-hearted instruction manual on how to pick up women; the nature...
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    generations—is directly attributable to Ovid himself. In the third book of his Ars Amatoria, Ovid argues that in writing these fictional epistolary poems in the...
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    emphasise the otherworldly and heroic qualities of Alexander. In the Ars Amatoria, the Roman poet Ovid describes the witch Dipsas as having 'double pupils'...
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    Publius Ovidius Naso. Amores, Epistulae, Medicamina faciei femineae, Ars amatoria, Remedia amoris. Edition by R. Ehwald; Rudolphi Merkelii; Leipzig. B...
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    work in question hasn't survived) and in most Roman authors. Ovid in Ars Amatoria (2.188) and Propertius, Elegies 1.1.9, use Milanion, apparently the Latin...
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    indicative of this taste for the beauty of poetry. "The disappearance of the Ars Amatoria and the Remedia amoris marks the end of a Gothic era in Ovidian publishing...
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  • Pausanias, 5.10.8 Homer, Odyssey 21.295 Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.219 Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.593 Apollodorus, 2.5.10 Hesiod, Theogony 293 Tzetzes on Lycophron,...
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  • Historia Naturalis, xi. 37. s. 55. Horace, Satirae, i. 3. 45. Ovid, Ars Amatoria, ii. 659. Priapeia, 36. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology...
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    the rocket, which revives drowsy Venus [sexual desire]"), and in the Ars Amatoria of Ovid. Some writers assert that for this reason, during the Middle...
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    of Cephalus and Procris figures twice in Ovid: in the third book of Ars Amatoria and in the seventh book of the Metamorphoses. It is retold in Cephalus...
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    Phormio, line 203. Ovid extends the phrase at I.608 of his didactic work, Ars Amatoria, writing "audentem Forsque Venusque iuvat" or "Venus, like Fortune, favors...
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  • Lucretius (c. 50 BC) Georgics, by Virgil (c. 30 BC) Ars Poetica by Horace (c. 18 BC) Ars Amatoria, by Ovid (1 BC) Thirukkural, by Thiruvalluvar (between...
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    endures." Much of its structure and its sentiments derived from Ovid's Ars amatoria. One theory holds that courtly love in Southern France was influenced...
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    165, 6.58; Propertius, Elegies 2.15.15–16; Ovid, Amores 11.13.43–44, Ars Amatoria 3.83, Heroides 15.89–90, 18.59–74; Seneca, Medea 93–101, Phaedra 309–316...
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