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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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Most of Ovid's major works are challenged: Metamorphoses, Ars amatoria, Amores, Fasti, and Heroides are brought forward in comparison with English, French, and Italian Renaissance writers who imitated Ovid's works of different genres in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria
Concerning discourses on love, one can trace them in a long tradition beginning with Ovid's Ars amatoria and his Remedia amoris, [39] where Love is conceived as sensual, extramarital, bellicose (the lover and his lady are at war with each other).
 
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