Ovid on Cosmetics

Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts

Autor: Marguerite Johnson, Terry Ryan

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Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing

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The Medicamina Faciei Femineae is a didactic elegy which showcases an early example of Ovid's tradem...

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Autor

Marguerite Johnson, Terry Ryan

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2016

Pagini

192

EAN

9781472514424

ISBN

1472514424

Enbook ID

04805309

Editura

Bloomsbury Publishing

Greutate

449

Dimensiuni

156 x 234 x 17

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The Medicamina Faciei Femineae is a didactic elegy which showcases an early example of Ovid's trademark combination of a moralistic, instructive form and trivial subject and meter. Exploring female beauty and cosmetics, with particular emphasis on the concept of 'cultus', the poem also presents five practical recipes for cosmetic treatments used by Roman women. Covering both didactic parody and pharmacological reality, this deceptively complex poem possesses wit, vivacity and importance. The first full study devoted to this little-researched but multi-faceted poem, Ovid on Cosmetics includes an in-depth introduction which situates the poem within its literary heritage of didactic and elegiac poetry, its place in Ovid's oeuvre and its relevance to social values, personal aesthetics and attitudes to female beauty in Roman society. The Latin text is presented on parallel pages alongside a new literal and quality translation, and all Latin phrases are translated for the non-specialist reader. Detailed commentary notes elucidate the text and individual phrases still further.The volume also contains related passages with translations and commentaries from Ovid's Ars Amatoria 3.1 01-250, on dress, appearance and make-up, and Amores 1.114, on hair dye and resulting baldness.Ovid on Cosmetics presents and explicates this witty, subversive yet significant poem, as well as contextualises its importance for gender and sexuality studies, women's life in antiquity, eroticism, aesthetics and social attitudes to women and beauty in Ancient Rome.

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