The art of love and other love books of Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
By: illustrated by Federico Castellon.
Series: The Universal library : -- 61
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Published: 1959
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 231
Table of contents: title: Book I : the loves. The poet explains how it is he comes to sing of love instead of battles -- The triumph of love -- He commends himself to his mistress by the merits of his poetry, the purity of his morals, and by the vow of his unchangeable fidelity -- Ovid, his mistress and her husband are all bidden to the same supper. He gives his mistress a code by which they can testify their love for each other, beneath her husband’s very eyes -- His delight at having obtained Corinna’s favors -- He conjures the porter to open the door of his mistress’s house -- He curses himself for having maltreated his mistress -- He curses a certain old woman of the town whom he overhears instructing his mistress in the arts of a courtesan -- He compareth love with war -- He endeavors to dissuade his mistress from becoming a courtesan -- He asks Nape to deliver a love-letter to her mistress -- He calls down curses on the tablets which bring him word of his mistress’s refusal -- He entreats the dawn to hasten not her coming -- To his mistress, who, contrary to his counsel, dyed her hair with noxious compositions, and has nearly become bald -- The poets alone are immortal -- Book II. He tells wherefore, instead of the wars of the giants, which he had commenced, he is constrained to sing of love -- To the eunuch Bagoas, begging him to give him access to the fair one committed to his charge -- He appeals once more to Bagoas, who had proved inflexible -- He confesses his inclination for love and his admiration for all manner of women -- He upbraids his mistress whom he has detected acting falsely towards him -- He laments the death of the parrot he had given to his mistress -- He assures Corinna that he has never had any guilty commerce with Cypassis, her maid -- He asks Cypassis how in the world Corinna could have found them out -- He beseeches Cupid not to discharge all his arrows at him alone -- He tells Graecinus how, despite what he says to the contrary, it is possible to be in love with two women at the same time --He seeks to dissuade Corinna from going to Bale -- He rejoices at having at last won the favors of Corinna -- He beseeches Isis to come to the aid of Corinna in her confinement -- On Corinna’s recovery he writes to her again concerning her attempt at abortion and tells her how naughty she has been -- To the ring which he is sending to his mistress -- To Corinna, beseeching her to visit him in his country home at Sulmo -- He complains to Corinna that she is too conceited about her good looks -- To Macer: to whom he excuses himself for giving himself up wholly to erotic verse -- To a man with whose wife he was in love -- Book III. The tragic and the elegiac muse strive for the possession of Ovid -- The circus -- To his mistress, whom he has found to be forsworn -- He urges a husband not to keep so strict a watch on his wife -- A dream -- To a river which has overflowed its banks and hindered the poet, who was hastening to his mistress -- The poet reproaches himself for having failed in his duty towards his mistress -- To his mistress, complaining that she has given preference to a wealthier rival -- On the death of Tibullus -- He complains to Ceres that, during her festival, he is not suffered to share his mistress’ couch -- Weary at length of his mistress’ infidelities, he swears that he will love her no longer -- He laments that his poems have made his mistress too well known -- The festival of Juno at Falisci -- To his mistress -- He bids farewell to his wanton muse, to court one more austere -- The art of love. Book I -- Book II -- Book III -- Love’s cure -- The art of beauty.