Ars amatoria Ideology Poetry Empire Marine Venus Pompeii 1 st cent CE Ovid Agenda Recap amp Update Virtus romana matrimonium lex Ovids Ars Background Structure Theme ID: 693623
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Ovid’s Art of Love (Ars amatoria)
Ideology, Poetry, Empire
Marine Venus – Pompeii, 1
st
cent. CE
OvidSlide2
AgendaRecap & UpdateVirtus romana, matrimonium, lexOvid’s ArsBackground, Structure, Theme
DiscussionWhat Would Ovid Say?Slide3
Recap & UpdateVirtus romana, matrimonium, lexSlide4
Virtus romana, matrimonium, lexmos maiorum (“way of the ancestors”)and virtus romana
matrimonial ideologyThe Augustan legislationlex
iulia et papia
lex iulia de adulteriis coercendis
AugustusSlide5
The Augustan LegislationLex iulia et papia 18 BCE, 9 CESanctions on marriage between members of the
ordo senatorius andFreedpersons
Infames
CriminalsAdultererslex iulia de adulteriis coercendis
18 BCEto Repress adultery2013-11-045Slide6
Ovid’s ArsBackground, Structure, ThemeSlide7
Bio-Historical Background
27 BCE
accession
14 CE
death
18 BCE
marriage
legislation
reign of Augustus
184 BCE
Cato censor
ca. 60 BCE
Catullus
Ovid (43 BCE–17/18 CE, banished 8 CE)
Art of Love
,
ca.
2 BCE-2CE
9 CE
41 BCE
Death of Caesar
SulpiciaSlide8
StructureBOOK 1-A“First … comes the task of finding an object for your love” (p. 167)BOOK 1-B“Next, you must labor to woo and win your lady” (p. 167)BOOK 2
“Thirdly, ensure that the affair will last” (p. 167)BOOK 3“Now I must fashion weapons for Penthesilea and her girls”
(p. 214)Slide9
Selected Themes, IssuesLascivi amores“wanton passions”“Safe love, legitimate liaisons”
(p. 167)venerem tutam
concessaque
furta …, / nullum … crimenMasculinity“Cybele’s Votaries”
Guilty Menelaus (p. 203)Mos maiorumOn Cosmetics: “Young girls didn’t cultivate their persons in the old days. … Let others worship the past; I much prefer the present” (bk3, p. 217)Feminine treachery
Pasiphae et al.
Erotic asymmetry, violenceRape of the Sabine Women“It’s all right to use force…”
Adultery (?)
“to please your lady’s escort” (
viro
placuisse
puellae
)
(p. 184)
“Husbands allow this latitude to lawful wives…”
(p. 207)Slide10
Cybele, Gallus
Gallus
: Eunuch priest of Cybele
Cybele (modern representation)
Magna Mater Deorum
,
“Great Mother of the Gods”
2013-11-04
10Slide11
“… even so, many contrived | to make panic look fetching” (p. 169)
Rape of the Sabine Women - PoussinSlide12
DiscussionWhat Would Ovid Say?Slide13
What Would Ovid Say?