L'ART D'AIMER OVIDE

by Ovid

L'art d'aimer, selon Ovide, c'est d'abord l'art de séduire. Bien avant que les agences de rencontres et les entreprises de séduction modernes existent, Ovide prodiguait ses conseils. C'était au 1er siècle de notre ère, mais lorsqu'on l'entend dire : " Qui que tu sois, n'aie qu'une faible confiance dans les charmes trompeurs de la beauté ; ajoute d'autres avantages à ces mérites du corps. Ce qui gagne surtout les cœurs, c'est une adroite complaisance". On croirait ces propos sortis tout droit d'un programme de séduction vendu sur Internet. Ovide y ajoute l'humour.

CD-ROM

Published December 20, 2010

About the author

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horatius, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly-organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a "poem and a mistake", but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
Ovid is most famous for the Metamorphoses, a continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love") and Fasti. His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology today.

Reviews

[clarity_books · Rating 4 out of 5]

J’enlève une étoile simplement pour la misogynie ambiante (on s’y attends en mythologie mais bon) mais sinon c’était vraiment drôle, parfois assez accurate!! et comme d’habitude j’adore Ovide et son écriture <3333 Superbe!!

[Berenice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ce livre bien qu’il soit vieux de plusieurs millénaires reste encore d’actualité. Un bon guide que devrait lire les hommes pour être de bons amants de nos jours. Certains passages dans le livre 3 pour les femmes sont borderlines mais étant donné l’année de publication, je ne suis pas étonnée.

[Alain · Rating 3 out of 5]

Parfois misogyne, mais prescription. La construction de la pensée de l'amour occidentale

[sheryne!! · Rating 5 out of 5]

Il est trop drôle ma vie