L'Art d'aimer
Ovid's next poem, the "Medicamina Faciei", a fragmentary work on women's beauty treatments, preceded the "Ars Amatoria", the "Art of Love", a parody of didactic poetry and a three-book manual about seduction and intrigue, which has been dated to AD 2 (Books 1–2 would go back to 1 BC). Ovid may identify this work in his exile poetry as the "carmen", or song, which was one cause of his banishment. The "Ars Amatoria" was followed by the "Remedia Amoris" in the same year. This corpus of elegiac, erotic poetry earned Ovid a place among the chief Roman elegists Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius, of whom he saw himself as the fourth member.