5/12/2023 0 Comments Ovid latin![]() This form had recently been made popular for use in love poetry by the poets Tibullus and Propertius, written in couplets consisting of one line in the classic metre of epic, hexameter, followed by a shorter line with a pause in the middle.Īrs Amatoria, the Art of Love, is a manual in poetic form which purports to teach how to seduce and retain lovers: the Remedia Amoris, or Cure for Love, deals with the reverse process. Like the majority of his works, the Amores is in elegiacs. The Amores is composed of love poems, largely addressed to a mistress he calls Corinna: it is more likely than with, say, Catullus’s Lesbia that Corinna was an ideal, not a real, person. The society he reflects approvingly seems distinctly easygoing about love and sex. ![]() Until well into middle age, he wrote prolifically and successfully for a sophisticated Roman audience, mostly about love. ![]()
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