![]() ![]() Hejduk’s assertion represents the general consensus among scholars about the Ars Amatoria: it is nearly impossible to find an article or book about the poem that does not contain words such as amusing or ludic (from the Latin ludus, “game”). ![]() ![]() A follow-up volume, published a few years later, teaches men how to fall out of love with unattainable women. It is an instruction manual for seduction in three volumes: the first teaches its readers how to seduce a woman the second focuses on how to keep her interest and the third teaches women how to seduce men. The Ars Amatoria is from the earlier part of Ovid’s career, when he focused almost exclusively on erotic works. Ovid’s Ars Amatoria ( Art of Love) has one of the funniest premises of any work of literature: namely, that Love-by which he means the initiation and maintenance of sexual relationships-is a field of study, like chess or astronomy or agriculture, whose strategies can be analyzed and taught. The introduction to Julia Hejduk’s recent translation of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria opens with this declaration: ![]()
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