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Ovid on Cosmetics - Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts (Paperback)
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Ovid on Cosmetics - Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts (Paperback)
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www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
The Medicamina Faciei Femineae is a didactic elegy that showcases
an early example of Ovid's trademark combination of poetic
instruction and trivial subject matter. Exploring female beauty and
cosmeceuticals, with particular emphasis on the concept of cultus,
the poem presents five practical recipes for treatments for Roman
women. Covering both didactic parody and pharmacological reality,
this deceptively complex poem possesses wit and vivacity and
provides an important insight into Roman social mores and
day-to-day activities. The first full study in English devoted to
this little-researched but multi-faceted poem, Ovid on Cosmetics
includes an introduction that situates the poem within its literary
heritage of didactic and elegiac poetry, its place in Ovid's oeuvre
and its relevance to social values, personal aesthetics and
attitudes to female beauty in Roman society. The Latin text is
presented on parallel pages alongside a new translation, and all
Latin words and phrases are translated for the non-specialist
reader. Detailed commentary notes elucidate the text and individual
phrases still further. Ovid on Cosmetics presents and explicates
this witty, subversive yet significant poem. Its attention to the
technicalities of cosmeceuticals and cosmetics, including detailed
analyses of individual ingredients and the effects of specific
creams and makeup, make this work a significant contribution to the
beauty industry in antiquity.
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