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1 online resource (xi, 171 pages) |
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"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 practical recipes for treatments for Roman women. Covering both didactic parody and pharmacological reality, this deceptively complex poem possesses wit and vivacity and provides an important insight into Roman social mores and day-to-day activities. The first full study in English devoted to this little-researched but multi-faceted poem, Ovid on Cosmetics includes an introduction that situates the poem within its literary heritage of didactic and elegiac poetry, its place in Ovid's oeuvre and its relevance to social values, personal aesthetics and attitudes to female beauty in Roman society. The Latin text is presented on parallel pages alongside a new translation, and all Latin words and phrases are translated for the non-specialist reader. Detailed commentary notes elucidate the text and individual phrases still further. Ovid on Cosmetics presents and explicates this witty, subversive yet significant poem. Its attention to the technicalities of cosmeceuticals and cosmetics, including detailed analyses of individual ingredients and the effects of specific creams and makeup, make this work a significant contribution to the beauty industry in antiquity"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Medicamina faciei femineae -- Amores 1.14 -- Ars amatoria 3.101-250 -- Remedia amoris 343-356 -- Ars amatoria 1.505-524. |
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Print version record. |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
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Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
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Texts in Latin with translations and commentary in English. |
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. (OCoLC)fst01839763
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Cosmetics -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
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Didactic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English.
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Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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Cosmetics. (OCoLC)fst00880500
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Didactic poetry, Latin. (OCoLC)fst00893018
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Early works. (OCoLC)fst01411636
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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Johnson, Marguerite, 1965- author, translator.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
De medicamine faciei.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
De medicamine faciei. English.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Ars amatoria. Selections.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Ars amatoria. Selections. English.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Amores. Selections.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Amores. Selections. English.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid on cosmetics 9781472514424 (DLC) 2015018895 (OCoLC)919068046 |
| ISBN |
9781472506740 (electronic book) |
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147250674X (electronic book) |
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9781472507495 (electronic publication) |
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1472507495 (electronic publication) |
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9781472514424 (electronic book) |
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1472514424 (electronic book) |
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9781472506573 (paperback) |
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147250657X (paperback) |
