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The Art of Love
Ovid
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Description for The Art of Love
Paperback. Written in the days of gladiators and emperors, this book covers all you need to know about where to meet a new beau, how to handle illicit affairs and how to maintain your allure. It also contains the companion volume The Cure for Love - in case things don't work out. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 193 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the subject of love in all of history. His advice is enduringly useful and entertaining. Between these covers you'll find all you need to know about where to meet a new beau, how to handle illicit affairs and how to maintain your allure.
This edition also contains the companion volume The Cure for Love - just in case things don't work out.
TRANSLATED BY TOM PAYNE AND INTRODUCED BY HEPHZIBAH ANDERSON
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099518822
SKU
V9780099518822
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About Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso was born in Italy on 20 March 43 BC. He was educated in Rome and worked as a public official before taking up poetry full-time. His earliest surviving work is the collection of love poems called the Amores, which was followed by the Heroides. The Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and the Remedia Amoris (The Cure ... Read more
Reviews for The Art of Love
With its jaunty, cunning and infernally clever rhyming couplets, Tom Payne's new translation is an utter treat from first to last...a sparkling foreword by Hephzibah Anderson...this effervescent Art of Love will be a lasting joy.
Independent
This sums Ovid up: Cerebral and sensual; but wit first
Ruth Padel Rome's wittiest poet
Independent on Sunday
His ... Read more
Independent
This sums Ovid up: Cerebral and sensual; but wit first
Ruth Padel Rome's wittiest poet
Independent on Sunday
His ... Read more