Ars Amatoria

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Ars Amatoria is a didactic elegiac poem by the Roman poet Ovid that offers witty, often controversial advice on the arts of love and seduction in ancient Rome.

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Ars Amatoria canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin poem
didactic poem
elegiac poem
addressedTo Roman men
Roman women
associatedWith exile of Ovid
author Ovid
book1Audience men
book2Audience men
book3Audience women
countryOfOrigin Roman Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Rome
culture Roman literature
genre didactic poetry
love poetry
hasPart Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
historicalReception criticized by moralists
popular in the Middle Ages
widely read in Renaissance humanism
influenced Renaissance love poetry
courtly love tradition
medieval love literature
literaryForm elegiac couplets
literaryPeriod Augustan age
literaryTechnique humor
irony
parody of didactic tradition
meter elegiac couplet
notableFor controversial advice on adultery
depiction of Roman social life
witty treatment of love and seduction
numberOfBooks 3
originalLanguage Latin
partOf Ovidian corpus
placeOfSetting Rome
relatedWork Amores
Medicamina Faciei Femineae
Remedia Amoris
subject courtship
love
relationships
seduction
theme gender relations in Rome
manipulation in love
performance and role-playing in romance
urban leisure culture
timeOfComposition around 1 BCE
early 1st century BCE/CE transition
titleTranslation The Art of Love

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Ovid notableWork Ars Amatoria
Remedia Amoris relatedWork Ars Amatoria
Tristia followsWork Ars Amatoria