Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture 15: Comparative Literature Ovid's Metamorphoses

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Music: chuck brown and eva cassidy // etta james you"ve changed. Publics ovidius naso 43 bc 17 ad: born one year after julius caesar"s murder; only 11 years old when battle of actium won (31 bc) Ovid had extraordinary talent for poetry everything i touch turns to poetry . He is witty, chatty, subversive, sarcastic, low seriousness in his work, frequently jokes around. Writes a number of works, generally about love (mainly about sex), eros: ars amatoria (art of love) Probably the first pick-up book pick up lines, strategies for relationships, how to seduce someone: remedia amoris (remedies of love) How to get out of love, how to get over love, how to talk yourself out of being in love and teaching yourself to not be in love. Completely witty, not serious at all, all for the amusement of the public: metamorphoses. The changes, his greatest work: 8 ad exiled to tomi on black sea (modern-day romania)

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