by Publio Ovidio Nasón · Edaf · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788471664945
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«El arte de amar. El remedio del amor» is the poetic work of Publio Ovidio Nasón, published by Edaf in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
«El arte de amar» advises how to win and keep love; «El remedio del amor» proposes antidotes against disappointment. Ovid writes them with irony, poetic refinement and continual allusions to classical myths, turning the amorous experience into a literary game full of nonchalance.
The edition is part of the Biblioteca Edaf collection and includes a study by Carlos García Gual and a translation by Francisco Crivell.
A work for readers of classical poetry, mythology and Roman-era literature, with an ironic approach that still feels close.
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.
