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Ars Amatoria

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Ars Amatoria
Ovid’s treatise on lovemaking. [Rom. Lit.: Magill IV, 45]
See : Eroticism


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He falls for the librarian's daughter, attempts to seduce her with the help of Ovid's Ars Amatoria and can't help feeling he would have more chance if he had dollars in his pockets rather than coins redeemable at the company store.
Alluding to Ovid's banishment from Rome to the distant shores of the Black Sea for offending the emperor Augustus in his Ars Amatoria, Lowell mentions "black" three times.
He is the author, after all, of famously lascivious love manuals and erotic poetry, teaching in his Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) how to pick up girls outside the Forum and generally mocking the pretensions of early imperial Rome, which caused Augustus to exile him in late middle-age.
 
 
 
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