The Art of Love : Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris

## Abstract This collection of essays on Ovid's corpus of erotodidactic poetry from an international contingent of Ovidian scholars finds its origins in a major conference held at the University of Manchester in 2002. The contributors between them offer a series of perspectives on the issues that have dominated scholarship on the poems in recent decades: questions of genre, intertextuality, narratology, and reception; the socio-historical Augustan context for the poems; and the nature of ‘love’ as it is constructed in the poems. Moreover, the introduction provides a comprehensive history of scholarship on the poems in the last fifty years, in which the current papers are situated. As the first collection of critical essays on Ovid's erotodidactic poetry to appear in English, one final aim of the present volume (and its original conference) is to bring together the important cultural or national traditions – German, Italian, Anglophone (British, Irish, and American) – of scholarship on the Ars and Remedia that have so far existed largely in isolation. 'the Art Of Love' Presents A Collection Of Essays On Ovid's Cycle Of Sophisticated And Subversive Didactic Poems On Love 'the Art Of Love' And 'cures For Love', Offering A Range Of Perspectives On The Poetics, Politics, And Erotics Of The Poems. Lessons In Love : Fifty Years Of Scholarship On The Ars Amatoria And Remedia Amoris / Steven J. Green -- Love In Parentheses : Digression And Narrative Hierarchy In Ovid's Erotodidactic Poems / Alison Sharrock -- Staging The Reader Response : Ovid And His 'contemporary Audience' In Ars And Remedia / Niklas Holzberg -- Vixisset Phyllis, Se Me Foret Usa Magistro : Erotodidaxis And Intertextuality / Duncan F. Kennedy -- In Ovid With Bed (ars 2 And 3) / John Henderson -- Women On Top : Livia And Andromache / Alessandro Barchiesi -- Ovid, Augustus, And The Politics Of Moderation In Ars Amatoria 3 / Roy K. Gibson -- The Art Of Remedia Amoris : Unlearning To Love? / Gianpiero Rosati -- Lethaeus Amor : The Art Of Forgetting / Philip Hardie -- Erotic Aetiology : Romulus, Augustus, And The Rape Of The Sabine Women / Mario Labate -- The Art Of Making Oneself Hated : Rethinking (anti)-augustanism In Ovid's Ars Amatoria / Sergio Casali -- Ars Amatoria Romana : Ovid On Love As A Cultural Construct / Katharina Volk -- Ovid's Evolution / Molly Myerowitz Levine -- Paelignus, Puto, Dixerat Poeta (mart. 2. 41. 2) : Martial's Intertextual Dialogue With Ovid's Erotodidactic Poems / Markus Janka -- Sex Education : Ovidian Erotodidactic In The Classroom / Ralph Hexter -- Ovid In Defeat? : On The Reception Of Ovid's Ars Amatoria And Remedia Amoris / Genevieve Liveley. Edited By Roy Gibson, Steven Green, And Alison Sharrock. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [341]-359) And Indexes. Preface......Page 6 Contents......Page 10 List of Contributors......Page 12 1 Lessons in Love: Fifty Years of Scholarship onthe Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris......Page 14 Part I Poetics......Page 34 2 Love in Parentheses: Digression andNarrative Hierarchy in Ovid’s ErotodidacticPoems......Page 36 3 Staging the Reader Response: Ovid and His‘Contemporary Audience’ in Ars andRemedia......Page 53 4 Vixisset Phyllis, si me foret usa magistroErotodidaxis and Intertextuality......Page 67 Part II Erotics......Page 88 5 In Ovid With Bed (Ars 2 and 3)......Page 90 6 Women on Top: Livia and Andromache......Page 109 7 Ovid, Augustus, and the Politics ofModeration in Ars Amatoria 3......Page 134 8 The Art of Remedia Amoris: Unlearning toLove?......Page 156 9 Lethaeus Amor : The Art of Forgetting......Page 179 Part III Politics......Page 204 10 Erotic Aetiology: Romulus, Augustus, andthe Rape of the Sabine Women......Page 206 11 The Art of Making Oneself Hated:Rethinking (Anti-)Augustanism in Ovid’sArs Amatoria......Page 229 12 Ars Amatoria Romana:Ovid on Love as a Cultural Construct......Page 248 13 Ovid’s Evolution......Page 265 Part IV Reception......Page 290 14 Paelignus, puto, dixerat poeta (Mart. 2. 41. 2):Martial’s Intertextual Dialogue with Ovid’sErotodidactic Poems......Page 292 15 Sex Education: Ovidian Erotodidactic in theClassroom......Page 311 16 Ovid in Defeat ? On the reception of Ovid’sArs Amatoria and Remedia Amoris......Page 331 Appendix: Timeline......Page 351 References......Page 354 Index Locorum......Page 374 General Index......Page 386 "The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love), which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted great influence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the first collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together many of the leading figures in the field of Latin literature and Ovidian studies from the British Isles, Germany, Italy, and the United States. It offers a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics of the poems, beginning with a critical survey of recent research, and concluding with papers on the ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the poems."--Publisher's description A collection of essays on Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, The Art of Love and Cures for Love, written by leading scholars and offering a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics of the poems. - ;The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love), which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good lovers, were partly responsibl. It is a critical topos to acknowledge that Ovid has enjoyed a resurgence of scholarly interest in the past twenty-five years.