Ovid saw love as a game that both sexes could play without getting hurt, as long as they followed the rules. Though frankly erotic, by no means innocent, and often offensive, Ovid's love poems were meant to entertain, and this edition does much to reproduce their sparkling wit and unfailing elegance.
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Ovid saw love as a game that both sexes could play without getting hurt, as long as they followed the rules. Though frankly erotic, by no means innocent, and often offensive, Ovid's love poems were meant to entertain, and this edition does much to reproduce their sparkling wit and unfailing elegance.
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New. The elegant verse and subtle observation of the Amores, The Art of Love, and The Cures of Love made their author the talk of Rome. Ovid saw love as a game at which both sexes could play without getting hurt-as long as they stuck to his rules, but primarily he wrote these sparkling and often erotic poems to entertain, and after two thousand years they still give enormous pleasure. Translator(s): Melville, A. D. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224. 2008. paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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