![]() We also looked at the Heroides, a collection of 21 letters, mostly from famous female characters of mythology, to their absent lovers. Last time, we looked at his Amores, a three-book-long collection of about 50 poems generally addressed to a mistress called Corinna. Ovid’s didactic love poetry wasn’t the only love poetry he wrote. So let’s call the subject of today’s show Ovid’s “didactic love poetry” – his love poetry that aims to instruct readers on the best means of courtship, lovemaking, and bouncing back after a breakup. We’re going to need a term upfront to describe all of the content we’ll cover in this episode, as it will be clunky to say, “ The Ars Amatoria, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, and Remedia Amoris” again and again and again. Much of the poetry Ovid writes on the subject of love explains how to find love and enjoy it, but the Remedia Amoris, or again the Cure for Love, illustrates how to recover and move on after a heartbreak. ![]() And finally, we’ll read Ovid’s Remedia Amoris, or Cure for Love. We’ll also look at Ovid’s Medicamina Faciei Femineae, or Women’s Facial Cosmetics, a fragment that survives from what was once a longer poem instructing women on how to prepare their makeup. The main text we’ll look at in this show will be the Ars Amatoria, or The Art of Love a three book long manual on seduction and courtship, the first two books addressed to men, and the last one, to women, that Ovid finished around 4 BCE. In this episode, we’re going to talk about three instructional poems by the Roman writer Ovid, instructional poems on the subject of love and romance. Hello, and welcome to Literature and History. How to Make Love to a Roman Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris
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