by Ovid · J'AI LU · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782277300113
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«L'Art d'aimer» is Ovid's didactic poem, published by J'ai Lu in paperback (95 pages, in French).
In three books, Ovid sets out the art of seduction: the first two teach a man how to win and keep a woman's love, and the third addresses women on how to attract and retain a lover. It is a manual of amorous courtship written in Latin, known as 'Ars amatoria'.
This edition reproduces the complete French text and belongs to the Librio Philosophie collection.
For readers interested in Latin poetry, classical literature 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.
