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Games of Venus : an anthology of Greek and Roman erotic verse from Sappho to Ovid
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ISBN: 0415902614 9780415902618 Year: 1993 Publisher: London Routledge

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Contains a useful introduction acquainting the reader with ancient sexual mores in their social setting, and offering a helpful guide to reading ancient erotic verse. Poems are prefaced by brief sketches of each poet's life and times. (Routledge)

Ovid. 2. The art of love and other poems
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ISBN: 0674992555 0434992321 9780674992559 Year: 1979 Volume: 232 2 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard University Press

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In the didactic poetry of Face Cosmetics, Art of Love, and Remedies for Love, Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE) demonstrates abstrusity and wit. His Ibis is an elegiac curse-poem. Nux, Halieutica, and Consolatio ad Liviam are poems now judged not to be by Ovid.

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