Ars Amatoria

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Ars Amatoria
Folio Society
Poetry & Plays

Ars Amatoria

Ovid
Edition year 1965
Binding Leather
Illustrator Victor Reinganum
Translator B.P. Moore
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 128
Dimensions 18.9 × 12.9 cm

Edition details

Ars Amatoria by Publius Ovidius Naso. Translated by B.P. Moore. Drawings (frontispiece, three head-pieces and 71 smaller decorations) by Victor Reinganum. Quarter bound in dark green leather, brown cloth boards. Endleaves with a repeat pattern in brown by Reinganum. Grey slipcase. 18.9x12.9cm. 128 pp.

About the book

Ovid's Ars Amatoria, or The Art of Love, is a witty didactic poem offering playful advice on courtship, seduction and relationships in ancient Rome. Addressing both men and women, Ovid treats love as a skill that can be learned, drawing on mythology, urban life and social observation. Beneath its mock-serious instruction, the poem provides a sophisticated and often provocative portrait of Roman attitudes to desire and sexual behaviour.

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