![]() ![]() However subtle use of the elegiac form tends to operate counter to this aim, rendering the work as much a celebration of relationship as a series of poems against it. The Cures for Love, Remedia Amoris, is a companion piece to the Art of Love, suggesting ways of evading the pain of love, and ending relationships. The whole work gives a lively view of Augustan Rome, while exhibiting the typical charm and beauty of Ovid’s verse. Provocative and light-hearted in tone, it caused offence, and was possibly a factor in, or at least an excuse for, Ovid’s later banishment by Augustus. The Art of Love, Ars Amatoria, was written in 2AD as a series of elegies purporting to teach young men and women how to succeed in the game of lovemaking. His gentle humanism is always evident throughout. ![]() Ovid makes extensive use of humour and parody to celebrate the elegy as a creative mode as deserving of immortality as the Virgilian epic. Mildly subversive it was published in 16BC, in five books, but later edited by Ovid into its surviving three-book form. The Amores was Ovid’s first book of poetry, consisting of love elegies, involving the possibly-fictitious Corinna. This work that will still stand forever, when I’m dead. Unwarlike elegies, joyful Muse, farewell, New, Complete English Translations of The Amores, Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris ![]()
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