Part XII: Avoid the vices, favour the poets. Part VII: Learn music and read the poets. Part VI: Be modest in laughter and movement. Part III: Taste and elegance in hair and dress. Part I: Now it is time to teach the girls. Part XX: The task is complete (for now…). Part XI: Have other friends (but be careful). Part X: Let her miss you (but not for too long). Part VIII: Favour her and compliment her. Part VII: Give her little tasteful gifts. Part XVIII: Be pale and be wary of your friends. Part XVII: Tears, kisses and taking the lead. Part III: Search while you are out walking. The poem provides teaching in the areas of how and where to find women (and husbands) in Rome, how to seduce them and how to prevent others from stealing them.Ī very brief general summary of the three books of the “Ars Amatoria” may be listed as follows: Book1: “Ars Amatoria” ( “The Art of Love”) is a collection of 57 didactic poems (or, perhaps more accurately, a burlesque satire on didactic poetry) in three books by the Roman lyric poet Ovid, written in elegiac couplets and completed and published in 1 CE. Introduction | Synopsis | Analysis | Resources Introduction (Didactic/Elegiac Poem, Latin/Roman, 1 CE, 2,330 lines) Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire (Catullus 8).Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus (Catullus 5).Passer, deliciae meae puellae (Catullus 2).
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