Author: OVIDIUS / NASO, PUBLIUS OVIDIUS
Title: The Art of Love. [In Slipcase]
Description: London: Folio Society, 1993.. Paintings by Grahame Baker. Translated by James Michie. First Edition; First Printing 96 p., frontis., col. ills., HARDCOVER: (Orig. dec. cloth. Slipcase. UNREAD thus NEW ) ¶ Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD) on love, the Ars Amandi, is extraordinarily original and un-Roman frivolous. In the Ars Amandi Ovid uses the serious genre of the didactic poem to instruct men (in books 1 and 2) and women (in book 3) in the art of seduction. Ovid invoked the wrath of Emperor Augustus, which also led to his banishment. The poems themselves, however, have been preserved and, in the beautiful translation.

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