Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America

Book Overview

Ovid's Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) and its sequel Remedies for Love (Remedia Amoris) are among the most notorious poems of the ancient world. In AD 8, the emperor Augustus exiled Ovid to the shores of the Black Sea for "a poem and a mistake." Whatever the mistake may have been, the poem was certainly the Ars Amatoria, which the emperor found a bit too immoral.
In exile, Ovid composed Sad Things (Tristia),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299225747
• ISBN13: 9780299225742
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.8"