A collection of essays on Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, The Art of Love and Cures for Love, written by leading scholars and offering a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics of the poems.

1. Lessons in Love: Fifty Years of Scholarship on the Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris ; I. POETICS ; 2. Love in Parentheses: Digression and Narrative Hierarchy in Ovid's Erotodidactic Poems ; 3. Staging the Reader Response: Ovid and his 'Contemporary Audience' in Ars and Remedia ; 4. Vixisset Phyllis, si me foret usa magistro: Erotodidaxis and Intertextuality ; II. EROTICS ; 5. In Ovid with Bed (Ars 2 and 3) ; 6. Women on Top: Livia and Andromache ; 7. Ovid, Augustus, and the Politics of Moderation in Ars Amatoria 3 ; 8. The Art of Remedia Amoris: Unlearning to Love? ; 9. Lethaeus Amor: The Art of Forgetting ; III. POLITICS ; 10. Erotic Aetiology: Romulus, Augustus, and the Rape of the Sabine Women ; 11. The Art of Making Onself Hated: Rethinking (Anti-)Augustanism in Ovid's Ars Amatoria ; 12. Ara Amatoria Romana: Ovid on Love as a Cultural Construct ; 13. Ovid's Evolution ; IV. RECEPTION ; 14. Paelignus, puto, dixerat poeta (Mart.2.41.2): Martial's Intertexual Dialogue with Ovid's Erotodidactic Poems ; 15. Sex Education: Ovidian Erotodidactic in the Classroom ; 16. Ovid in Defeat? On the Reception of Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris

The first collection in English devoted to Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris Several key issues are re-assessed by leading Ovidian scholars Will revitalize the study of these stimulating and entertaining works

Roy Gibson is Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester. Steven Green is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds. Alison Sharrock is Professor of Classics at the University of Manchester.

The first collection in English devoted to Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris Several key issues are re-assessed by leading Ovidian scholars Will revitalize the study of these stimulating and entertaining works