Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Remedia Amoris
4 Mar 2016
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Born one year after julius caesar"s murder; only 11 when battle of actium won in. His works are generally about love and sex (eros) He is witty, chatty, having fun and making fun of things. Arms amatoria (art of love) : how to get into love. Remedia amoris (remedies of love) : how to get out of love. Ovid did something to piss off the emperor. Very possibly something to do with augustus caesar"s niece. He was exiled to the black sea (the middle of nowhere) Spent rest of life trying to get augustus caesar to let him back into rome. Epic of vergilian/homeric type (long, unified narrative about a hero) Collective narratives held together by personality of narrator. Anxiety of influence - takes on (and outdoes?) Nothing new in the stories, all mythology. What"s new, is how he treats it, how he tweaks the story again and again. Putting everything from creation to the present into text.
