Liebeskunst

Liebeskunst Ovid - Wie lernt man eine Frau kennen, wie erobert und verführt man sie, wie gelingt eine glückliche Beziehung? Moderne Fragen, die heute in jedem Beziehungsratgeber zu finden sind, hat der römische Dichter Ovid bereits vor 2000 Jahren für die römische Jugend beantwortet. Von konkreten zeitlosen Ratschlägen bis zwischen den Zeilen zu lesenden ironischen Anspielungen über das taktische Spiel der Liebe. Auch im engeren Sinne Sexuelles fehlt nicht: So preist Ovid die Freuden eines gemeinsamen Orgasmus und erörtert die Stellungen beim Geschlechtsverkehr.Über den Autor: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 v. Chr. 17 n. Chr.) war ein antiker römischer Schriftsteller und zählt neben Horaz und Vergil zu den drei großen Poeten der literaturgeschichtlich klassischen Epoche Roms. Berühmt wurde er vor allem durch seine Metamorphosen, eine groß angelegte Nacherzählung griechischer Mythologie. Weder seine freizügigen literarischen Ausführungen noch seine politische Einstellung passten dem sittenstrengen Kaiser Augustus, der ihn lebenslang in die Stadt Tomis am Schwarzen Meer verbannte.

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BCE CE 17/18), known as Ovid (/vd/) in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially the Amores ("Love Affairs") and Ars Amatoria ("Art of Love"). His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology.Ovid is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace, his older contemporaries, as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. He was the first major Roman poet to begin his career during the reign of Augustus, and the Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but in one of the mysteries of literary history he was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death. Ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error, "a poem and a mistake", but his discretion in discussing the causes has resulted in much speculation among scholars.Ovid's prolific poetry includes the Heroides, a collection of verse epistles written as by mythological heroines to the lovers who abandoned them; the Fasti, an incomplete six-book exploration of Roman religion with a calendar structure; and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of elegies in the form of complaining letters from his exile. His shorter works include the Remedia Amoris ("Cure for Love"), the curse-poem Ibis, and an advice poem on women's cosmetics. He wrote a lost tragedy, Medea, and mentions that some of his other works were adapted for staged performance.