El arte de amar by Ovid
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"El arte de amar" by Ovid is an instructional elegy series written in 2 AD. This three-book guide offers advice on the art of romance: how men can find and keep a woman, and how women can win and maintain a man's love. Written in elegiac couplets and filled with Greek mythology and Roman life details, the work became wildly popular yet controversial. Its playful instructions influenced medieval literature so profoundly that
scholars called the era "the Ovidian epoch," transforming love itself into an academic subject studied for centuries. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Ovid, 44 BCE-18? |
|---|---|
| Uniform Title | Ars amatoria. Spanish |
| Title | El arte de amar |
| Original Publication | Spain: Repullés,1821. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Amatoria Wikipedia page about this book: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arte_de_amar |
| Credits | Ramón Pajares Box and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This ebook was produced from images generously made available by Biblioteca Digital Hispánica/Biblioteca Nacional de España.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 62.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | Spanish |
| LoC Class | PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Seduction -- Poetry |
| Subject | Didactic poetry, Latin -- Translations into Spanish |
| Subject | Erotic poetry, Latin -- Translations into Spanish |
| Subject | Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Translations into Spanish |
| Subject | Love poetry, Latin -- Translations into Spanish |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Rome -- Poetry |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 67961 |
| Release Date | May 1, 2022 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1246 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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