A Commentary on Ovid's Remedia Amoris

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A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Poisonous Cures: The Remedia in Ovid
(a) Under the Sign of Janus
(b) Potions, Spells, Metamorphosis
(c) Failure and Consolation
(d) Epic and Elegy
(e) The Poet of Time
(f) Guilt and Atonement
(g) Vicious Cycles
2. The Erotodidactic Tradition, ‘Technical’ Texts and the Remedia
(a) What Kind of Didactic Poem?
(b) Philosophical and Medical Texts
(c) Rhetorical Remedia
3. Structure
4. Organizational Principles
5. Ovid’s Double Audience in the Remedia
6. Title
7. Date
8. Receptions
9. Manuscript Tradition
TEXT AND CRITICAL APPARATUS
Sigla
P. OVIDI NASONIS REMEDIA AMORIS
COMMENTARY
Commentary
1–40 Proem
41–78 Poison and Cure
79–106 Stop at Beginnings
107–34 Timing and Delay
135–50 Shun Leisure
151–68 Keep Busy (I): The Law and the Army
169–98 Keep Busy (II): Country Pursuits
199–212 Keep Busy (III): Hunting and Fishing
213–24 Voluntary Exile
225–48 Bitter Remedies and Relapses
249–90 The Failure of Magic Arts: Circe
291–340 Faults and Charms
341–56 An Impromptu Visit
357–98 A Defence of Erotic Elegy
399–440 Obscene Pleasures
441–88 New Loves
489–522 Self-Deception
523–42 Cures for the Soft-Hearted
543–78 Lethaeus Amor: Forgetting Love
579–608 Beware of Solitude
609–34 Shun Contagion
635–54 Cut All Ties
655–706 Peace Not War
707–40 Compare and Contrast, and Don’t Look Back
741–50 Love Feeds on Wealth
751–66 Avoid the Erotic Arts
767–94 Banish Thoughts of Rivals
795–810 Food and Drink
811–14 Coda
Abbreviations
General Abbreviations
Editions and Commentaries
Bibliography
Subject Index
Index of Latin and Greek
Index of Names