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Ovid: The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) Book I Part I: His Task

Sep 27, 2025

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Mark

in Ancient Rome, Everything Latin, Ovid, Poetry, Roman Empire

Illustration by Frederico Righi Publius Ovidius Naso 43 BC – c. 17 AD Should anyone here not know the art of love, read this, and learn by reading how to love. By art the boat’s set gliding, with oar and sail, by art the chariot’s swift: love’s ruled by art. Automedon was skilled with Achilles’s chariot…