OVID SCHOLARS Flashcards
male author’s
appropriation of the feminine voice’ – Elizabeth Harvey
The advice for women
in Ars 3 is ‘mainly for male benefit’ – Steven Green
‘Plato and Ovid agree love
is a cultural construct but Ovid says sex is a natural thing.’ – Katharina Volk
Ovid is not simply a prankster
and his concern is not only with literature but with life’ – Jenkyns
Ovid celebrates modern
Rome as the golden age – Volk / Jenkyns
Reader is encouraged
not to take anything the poet says too seriously – Fitzgerald
Argues that the ‘didactic voice’
can be seen as the voice of the ‘bogus teacher’ – Lindsay Watson
‘Ovid is sympathetic
to women’ – Alison Sharrock
‘perception of women seems to change
– they are not entirely passive as there are parts where he gives them a more active role’ – Christopher Brunelle
‘his personal preferences
suggest that the Ars is for himself’ – Christopher Brunelle
‘Critics have repeatedly
felt that the poem lack sincerity.’ – Bishop
‘The Ars Amatoria is
about lust rather than love.’ – Bishop
‘Pleasing the opposite sex
is one of the central skills to the art of love.’ – Gibson
‘Ovid’s view of human relationships
is nothing if not pragmatic.’ – Gibson
‘Ovid isn’t writing
to women, he’s mocking them.’ – Hall
‘Ovid’s tone alternates
between description and prescription, and an audience whose identity is never entirely stable.’ - Brunelle
The story of Procris and Cephalus
reinforces the double standards of Roman sexuality - the man gets away with it and the woman is punished. - Green
an Anti-Augustan poem
according to the Lex Julia, women caught in adultery could no longer wear the stola of an respectable Roman woman. They were forced to wear a toga traditionally worn by men and prostitutes.
telling women how to dress and do their hair is rejecting the Augustan polarisation of women as either respectable matrons or prostitutes.
- Gibson
the Ars is a poem that sometimes
implicitly and sometimes explicitly criticises Augustan moral reform
- Sharrock
a stylised assault
on the whole marital condition
- Green
Ovid’s precepts are presented
with the advantage of male lover in mind
- Watson
common assumption that women
in their natural state are unpalatable to men
- Green
Ovid deflates epic by presenting
mythical heroines as mere causes of erotic disappointment
- Gibson
his intent is
entirely disingenuous
- Gibson
anti-feminist
humour pervades the poem
- Leach
conscious propaganda
for seduction, Ovid is a teacher of adultery
- Greene
Ovid’s tone is very
condescending and patronising
- Wilkinson
