Ovid on cosmetics : Medicamina faciei femineae and related texts

Ovid on cosmetics Medicamina faciei femineae and related texts

"The Medicamina Faciei Femineae is a didactic elegy that showcases an early example of Ovid's trademark combination of poetic instruction and trivial subject matter. Exploring female beauty and cosmeceuticals, with particular emphasis on the concept of cultus, the poem presents five pract...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D (-)
Other Authors: Johnson, Marguerite, 1965- author, translator (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic 2016.
Subjects:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Criticism and interpretation.
Cosmetics > Poetry > Early works to 1800.
Didactic poetry, Latin > Translations into English.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009685725506719
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • Introduction
  • Medicamina Faciei Femineae: Latin text and [English] translation
  • Commentary
  • Selected passages from Ars Amatoria and Amores: Latin text and [English] translation
  • Commentary
  • Select
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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