Les Remèdes à l'amour / Les Produits de beauté pour le visage de la femme

by Ovid, Henri Bornecque (Translator)

Après L'art d'aimer, le poète romain Ovide délivre une approche très pragmatique des moyens à mettre en oeuvre pour "éteindre une flamme cruelle et affranchir les coeurs d'un honteux esclavage". "Venez à mes leçons, jeunes gens trompés, qui, dans votre amour, n'avez trouvé que déceptions. Celui qui vous a appris à aimer vous apprendra à vous guérir. La même main vous apportera la blessure et le remède." Un manuel pratique à l'usage des coeurs brisés par l'un des plus grands chantres de l'amour de l'Antiquité.

96 pages, Pocket Book

Published February 17, 2017

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.

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[l’eau · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ovide qui me dit d’avoir une vie au lieu de penser incessamment à mes problèmes ok dude