Ovid: Ars Amatoria, Book III (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Series Number 40)

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by Ovid

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Book 3 of Ovid's Ars Amatoria teaches women how to catch and keep men and is presented in this modern edition, based on the revised Oxford Classical Text by E.J. Kenney. In his extensive introduction and commentary, Gibson responds to recent developments in interpreting didactic poetry and the treatment of women by classical authors, especially the Latin elegiac poets. He explores how the interests of male readers are covertly served in a book addressed to women. "This is a most welcome volume. Advanced students and scholars interested in amatory, didactic, and Augustan poetry in general will find in Gibson's Ars 3 a prized addition to their libraries." New England Classical Journal, Thomas A. Suits, University of Connecticut, Storrs A full-scale commentary emphasising the poem's didactic elements and its treatment of women.

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