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How To Seduce, Pleasure and Titillate in Classical Latin
Whether they say yes or no to you, all women love to be asked, insists Ovid in his famous seduction manual, The Art of Loving. And he, along with his fellow Romans, had a thousand skillful suggestions for just how to put the all-important question and to obtain the desired-for result. A follow-up to the highly successful How to Insult, Abuse and Insinuate in Classical Latin, which has sold an amazing 100,000 copies, this humorous illustrated manual on how to make love the Latin way is compiled from the works of the usual salacious suspects: Ovid, Catullus, Martial, Propertius and Lucretius. The sexual mores of these ancient writers are often surprisingly modern, and also charmingly irreverent. Time-honored chat-up lines, smooth operations, infallible seduction techniques and fascinating foreplay suggestions are here freshly transformed into colloquial English, and other indispensable modern phrases are translated in to classical Latin in a book to add wit to any lover's repertoire.
65 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2004
About the author
Michelle Lovric
112 books171 followersMichelle Lovric is a novelist, writer and anthologist.
Her third novel, The Remedy, was long-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. The Remedy is a literary murder-mystery set against the background of the quack medicine industry in the eighteenth century.
Her first novel, Carnevale, is the story of the painter Cecilia Cornaro, described by The Times as the possessor of ‘the most covetable life’ in fiction in 2001.
In Lovric’s second novel, The Floating Book, a chorus of characters relates the perilous beginning of the print industry in Venice. The book explores the translation of raw emotion into saleable merchandise from the points of view of poets, editors, publishers – and their lovers. The Floating Book, a London Arts award winner, was also selected as a WH Smith ‘Read of the Week’.
Her first novel for young adult readers, The Undrowned Child, is published by Orion. The sequel is due in summer 2010.
Her fourth adult novel, The Book of Human Skin, is published by Bloomsbury in Spring 2010.
Lovric reviews for publications including The Times and writes travel articles about Venice. She has featured in several BBC radio documentaries about Venice.
She combines her fiction work with editing, designing and producing literary anthologies including her own translations of Latin and Italian poetry. Her book Love Letters was a New York Times best-seller.
Lovric divides her time between London and Venice. She holds a workshop in her home in London with published writers of poetry and prose, fiction and memoir.
Her third novel, The Remedy, was long-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. The Remedy is a literary murder-mystery set against the background of the quack medicine industry in the eighteenth century.
Her first novel, Carnevale, is the story of the painter Cecilia Cornaro, described by The Times as the possessor of ‘the most covetable life’ in fiction in 2001.
In Lovric’s second novel, The Floating Book, a chorus of characters relates the perilous beginning of the print industry in Venice. The book explores the translation of raw emotion into saleable merchandise from the points of view of poets, editors, publishers – and their lovers. The Floating Book, a London Arts award winner, was also selected as a WH Smith ‘Read of the Week’.
Her first novel for young adult readers, The Undrowned Child, is published by Orion. The sequel is due in summer 2010.
Her fourth adult novel, The Book of Human Skin, is published by Bloomsbury in Spring 2010.
Lovric reviews for publications including The Times and writes travel articles about Venice. She has featured in several BBC radio documentaries about Venice.
She combines her fiction work with editing, designing and producing literary anthologies including her own translations of Latin and Italian poetry. Her book Love Letters was a New York Times best-seller.
Lovric divides her time between London and Venice. She holds a workshop in her home in London with published writers of poetry and prose, fiction and memoir.
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April 3, 2013
The things you never knew you never knew you needed to know... This is an amusing little book that can be fun to pull phrases from if you have a language lover as a lover, or some other geek that will appreciate it. Flowery and outright corny at times and at others lovely, worth remembering a phrase or two for that next "special moment"
March 9, 2016
Similar to other books in the series, How to Insult, Abuse & Insinuate in Classical Latin and Latin Stuff & Nonsense, a fun little booklet of Latin for the illiterati . . .
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