平特五不中 Reads: "The Erotic Poems" by Ovid
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翱惫颈诲鈥檚 The Erotic Poems
Presented by Professor Maggie Kilgour.
Note: Feel free to skip the intro and note sections.
This collection of Ovid's poems explores the entire spectrum of
sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of
eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the
Amores, Ovid writes a series of elegies to Corinna, his
beautiful and elusive mistress. The intimate and vulnerable nature
of the poet revealed in these early poems vanishes in the notorious
Art of Love, in which he provides a knowing and witty
guide to sexual conquest - a work whose alleged obscenity led to
Ovid's banishment from Rome in AD 8. This volume also includes the
Cures for Love, with instructions on how to terminate a
love affair, and On Facial Treatment for Ladies, an
incomplete poem on the art of cosmetics.
Professor Maggie Kilgour received her PhD from Yale University. She
is the recipient of the Principal鈥檚 Prize for Excellence in
Teaching and several SSHRC grants. Her teaching and research areas
include Renaissance European literature, classical literature, the
gothic novel, and cannibalism. She is especially interested in the
ways in which classical authors were creatively rewritten at later
times, and is currently completing a book on Ovid and Milton.
Cost: $15 CDN (includes 3 lectures; 10% off these books at 平特五不中 bookstore)