by Ovidio · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420635590
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«Arte de amar. Remedios de amor» is Alianza's edition bringing together two didactic poems by Ovid on love, in paperback (222 pages, in Spanish).
The volume groups two works by the Roman poet: in «Arte de amar», Ovid instructs on the art of winning and keeping love, with practical advice for men and women. In «Remedios de amor», he proposes strategies for freeing oneself from an unrequited passion or a painful relationship. The tone combines irony, social observation, and a lucid view of human relationships in classical Rome.
The book belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo collection, Biblioteca de Clásicos de Grecia y Roma section of Alianza Editorial. The original work «Ars amatoria» dates from around AD 2.
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.
