A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris: Edited with Introduction and Commentary

By: Rimell, Victoria

The Ovidian Renaissance seems to have left the Remedia Amoris behind. The poem has remained marginal, read either as a reversal of the Ars Amatoria's teaching that brings the world of Ovidian elegy to a banal end, or as an over-determined supplement to the Ars which ironically fails in its ostensible aim of 'curing' the dissatisfied lover. While recent work has explored how the poem functions not just as a palinode to, but also as a continuation of,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192894218
• ISBN13: 9780192894212
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.2" x 8.1"