CLAS 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ars Amatoria
24 Feb 2016
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>yes, embedded in the culture, but relative to the culture, it"s more of a caricature of the culture because it"s so ridiculous. A joke that we don"t really get. Reflection of the society it"s just the way it was part of the society. It"s not a negative work in any way. >misogynistic is too far, but women were certainly expected to be more passive. >a lot of the advice for women was focused on deceiving the man. > golden age = augustan (pun women always wanting money and gold is presented as a bad thing double meaning?!) >he still advises against people betraying augustan laws. >important because it does operate outside the normal ideals of women which isn"t. Augustan or anti-augustan but still promotes a sphere of activity that augustus can"t really control. >tale of icarus (book 2) don"t fly too high but don"t fly to low either.
