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Remedia Amoris (also known as Love's Remedy or The Cure for Love; c. 2 AD) is an 814-line poem in Latin by Roman poet Ovid.In this companion poem to The Art of Love, Ovid offers advice and strategies to avoid being hurt by love feelings, or to fall out of love, with a stoic overtone.
3.8 - Ovid laments over his lover's avarice, complaining that poetry and the arts are now worth less than gold. 3.9 - An elegy for the dead Tibullus. 3.10 - The Festival of Ceres prevents Ovid from making love to his mistress. Characteristically of Ovid, he complains he should not be held responsible for the gods' mistakes.
His erotic elegy covers a wide spectrum of themes and viewpoints; the Amores focus on Ovid's relationship with Corinna, the love of mythical characters is the subject of the Heroides, and the Ars Amatoria and the other didactic love poems provide a handbook for relationships and seduction from a (mock-)"scientific" viewpoint.
The recurring theme, as with nearly all of Ovid's work, is love—be it personal love or love personified in the figure of Amor . Indeed, the other Roman gods are repeatedly perplexed, humiliated, and made ridiculous by Amor , an otherwise relatively minor god of the pantheon , who is the closest thing this putative mock-epic has to a hero.
The Ars amatoria created considerable interest at the time of its publication. On a lesser scale, Martial's epigrams take a similar context of advising readers on love. . Modern literature has been continually influenced by the Ars amatoria, which has presented additional information on the relationship between Ovid's poem and more current wri
Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD), Metamorphoses, book XV, line 165: omnia omnibus: all things to all men: 1 Corinthians 9:22 si omnia ficta: if all (the words of poets) is fiction: Ovid, Metamorphoses, book XIII, lines 733–4: "si non omnia vates ficta" omnia vincit amor: love conquers all: Virgil (70 BC – 19 BC), Eclogue X, line 69: omnia munda mundis
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Front matter of Boswell's copy of the 1732 edition of the Heroides, edited by Peter Burmann. Note the title Heroides sive Epistolae, The Heroides or the Letters.. The Heroides (The Heroines), [1] or Epistulae Heroidum (Letters of Heroines), is a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid in Latin elegiac couplets and presented as though written by a selection of aggrieved heroines ...