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平特五不中 Reads: "The Erotic Poems" by Ovid

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 18:00
855 Sherbrooke Street West, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Leacock Building, Room 232, Montreal, CA

If you miss the insightful discussions of the classroom or just love to read, this is your chance to discover thought-provoking books and meet new people while learning from some of 平特五不中鈥檚 favourite professors without tests, papers, or evaluations!

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)

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