by Publio Ovidio Nason · LIBSA EDITORIAL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788489715721
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«El arte de amar» is the didactic poem by Publio Ovidio Nason, in paperback (96 pages, in Spanish).
A manual of seduction written in verse, in which Ovid gives advice on finding a partner, initiating courtship, maintaining the relationship and overcoming heartbreak. With an ironic and often mocking tone, the Roman poet addresses both men and women and describes customs of the society of his time, with an attitude that scandalized the Rome of Augustus.
It belongs to the Grandes Obras de la Literatura collection; the original title of the work is Ars amatoria.
Recommended for readers interested in Latin classics and in poetry with an ironic tone about love.
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a carmen et error, but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
