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Ovid: The Erotic PoemsPenguin Classics This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The intimate and vulnerable nature of the poet revealed in these early poems vanishes in the notorious Art of Love, in which he provides a knowing and

Ovid deliberately juxtaposes a story showing the king of the gods as a savage rapist

and Sappho - the only historical figure portrayed here - describes her passion for the cruelly rejecting Phaon

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and to consider and evaluate the Satyrica’s relationship to the literary tradition

and the installation of Cleopatra

μια φορά στη ζωή σου να δεις μιαν όμορφη πράσινη πέτρα και δεν την είδες»

Her new introduction and notes represent the latest scholarship

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and that drinking can be a virtue if it is done with rules and limits

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Greek title - Epikinoniste Ellinika 3