Ovid: Ars Amatoria, Book 3

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by Ovid,

Edited by Roy Gibson

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published February 2003, 460 pages, cloth

ISBN 0521813700

Book 3 of Ovid's Ars Amatoria teaches women how to catch and keep men and is presented in this modern edition, based on the revised Oxford Classical Text by E.J. Kenney. In his extensive introduction and commentary, Gibson responds to recent developments in interpreting didactic poetry and the treatment of women by classical authors, especially the Latin elegiac poets. He explores how the interests of male readers are covertly served in a book addressed to women.

Contents

Introduction; Text and critical apparatus; Method of the commentary; Commentary.