A Commentary on Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2
| Dates: | 16 May 2013 |
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| Times: | 16:55 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Sarah Brooks (Manchester) |
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Classics & Ancient History weekly Research Seminar, Samuel Alexander Building S.2.9 -- PENULTIMATE MEETING OF THIS ACADEMIC YEAR
ABSTRACT
In the Ars Amatoria (‘The Art of Loving’) the poet as teacher (praeceptor) instructs the reader on how to seduce girls. This paper examines two passages from the poem, with the aim of elucidating the text. The first passage includes an exemplum involving the mythological heroine Atalanta. The second concerns the elegiac type-scene of visiting the sick. I hope to demonstrate some connections between the two passages, and to show that Ovid’s engagement with earlier elegy involves subversion of these models.
Speaker
Sarah Brooks (Manchester)
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Samuel Alexander Building
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