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«El arte de amar» is Ovid's didactic poem on seduction, published by Gradifco in paperback (95 pages, in Spanish).
The Roman poet Ovid wrote a manual of seduction in three parts: the first teaches men how to conquer, the second how to keep the love they have won, and the third shows women how to seduce and please. With an ironic and sententious tone, the text reflects the amorous codes of Roman society of the time.
«El arte de amar» is also known by its Latin title «Ars amatoria»; the text was composed in Latin by Publius Ovidius Naso, the author's full name.
For readers interested in Latin poetry and the amorous 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.
