The Love Poems by Ovid Paperback Book 9780199540334

The elegant verse and subtle observation of the Amores The Art of Love and The Cures of Love made their author the talk of Rome Ovid saw love as a game at which both sexes could play without getting hurt as long as they stuck to his rules but primarily he wrote these sparkling and often erotic poems to entertain and after two thousand years they still give enormous pleasure