The Ars amatoria (The Art of Love) is an instructional elegy series in three books by the ancient Roman poet Ovid. It was written in 2 AD. Book one of...

dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love") and Fasti. His poetry was much imitated during Late...

art; Fredrick, p. 159. Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.777–778; Gibson, Ars Amatoria Book 3, p. 393. Hectoreus equus (Ars Amatoria 3.777–778); Meyboom and Versluys...

the sixteen-line episode the weight of a brief inset myth. In Ovid's Ars Amatoria Pasiphaë is framed in zoophilic terms: Pasiphae fieri gaudebat adultera...

(Hecate)". Homer Odyssey viii. 361; for Ares/Mars and Thrace, see Ovid, Ars Amatoria, book ii.part xi.585, which tells the same tale: "Their captive bodies...

his exile was carmen et error ("a poem and an error"), probably the Ars Amatoria and a personal indiscretion or mistake. The council of the city of Rome...

S2CID 195025221. Ovid, Heroides, 15.35–38. Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.53. Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.643–644. Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.191–192. Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.665 ff....

attest its popularity, it served as a source of inspiration for Ovid's Ars Amatoria, written around 3 BC, which is partially a sex manual, and partially...

be no crime in my song. Did I not exclude rigorously from reading my Ars amatoria all women whom the wearing of stola and vitta protects from touch?" Such...

Phormio, line 203. Ovid extends the phrase at I.608 of his didactic work, Ars Amatoria, writing "audentem Forsque Venusque iuvat" or "Venus, like Fortune, favors...