This is a full-scale commentary devoted to the third book of Ovid's
Ars Amatoria. It includes an Introduction, a revision of E. J.
Kenney's Oxford text of the book, and detailed line-by-line and
section-by-section commentary on the language and ideas of the
text. Combining traditional philological scholarship with some of
the concerns of more recent critics, both Introduction and
commentary place particular emphasis on: the language of the text;
the relationship of the book to the didactic, 'erotodidactic' and
elegiac traditions; Ovid's usurpation of the lena's traditional
role of erotic instructor of women; the poet's handling of the
controversial subjects of cosmetics and personal adornment; and the
literary and political significances of Ovid's unexpected emphasis
in the text of Ars III on restraint and 'moderation'. The book will
be of interest to all postgraduates and scholars working on
Augustan poetry.
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