Ovid's Lovers
Subtitle: Desire, Difference and the Poetic Imagination
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521862196
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Poetry; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Latin; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; General; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Desire in literature; History and criticism; Love in literature; Love poetry, Latin
First sentence: The Medicamina, which advises women on how to perfect their complexions, can be read as a distilled contemplation, a thumbnail sketch, of what I will be discussing throughout this book: Ovid's probing of the relationship between self and other in the context of a high imperial culture which, like the dressing table mirror, seems to breed self-awareness.