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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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....
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    (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...
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    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...
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    Publius Ovidius Naso, Amores, Epistulae, Medicamina faciei femineae, Ars amatoria, Remedia amoris. R. Ehwald. edidit ex Rudolphi Merkelii recognitione...
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  • the year AD 2, recommended by the Roman poet Ovid in his famous book Ars Amatoria: So, then, my dear ones, feel the pleasure in the very marrow of your...
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