Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Ovid’s first work, the Amores ( The Loves ), had an immediate success and was followed, in rapid succession, by the Epistolae Heroidum, or Heroides ( Epistles of the Heroines ), the Medicamina faciei (Cosmetics Eng. It features poems such as 'Amores' and 'Cures for Love'. A collection of Ovid's poems that deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. This volume also includes the Cures for Love, with instructions on how to terminate a love affair, and On Facial Treatment for Ladies, an incomplete poem on the art of cosmetics. The intimate and vulnerable nature of the poet revealed in these early poems vanishes in the notorious Art of Love, in which he provides a knowing and witty guide to sexual conquest - a work whose alleged obscenity led to Ovid's banishment from Rome in AD 8. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. Ovid's Erotic Poems: 'Amores' and 'Ars Amatoria' (Kindle Edition) Published September 16th 2014 by University of Pennsylvania Press.

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This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity.

The Erotic Poems by Ovid