by Ovidio · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437611693
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«Amores; Arte de amar» is the volume of Latin poetry by Ovid, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (576 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together two works by Ovid. «Amores» is a collection of love elegies about the poet's experiences in his relationships. «Arte de amar» is a didactic and ironic manual for conquering and maintaining love. Both portray private life in Augustan Rome with passages of sexual content that never fall into the obscene.
Part of the Letras Universales collection (number 185). Fifth edition, edited by Juan Antonio González Iglesias, published in 2006.
For readers of classical poetry and Latin literature interested in the society and customs of ancient Rome.
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a carmen et error, but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
