6/11/2023 0 Comments Ovid the art of love translation![]() ![]() ![]() In previous blog posts, I presented poetic excerpts of Ovid’s advice to men. ![]() He advises men on “letting her miss you, but not for too long,” “remembering her birthday,” and “not asking her age.” In the first two books of “The Art of Love”, Ovid addresses his poems to men. The ancient Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE and 17 CE) is well-known among love scholars for his “Ars Amatoria,” a three-volume instructional series of poems describing what love is and how to love using the arts of seduction and intrigue. ![]()
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