Ovide

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Ovide : The Art of Love

Author

The goal, reach it at the same time; it is the peak of voluptuousness, when, defeated both, woman and man remain lying, without strength. This is the course to follow, when leisure leaves you all freedom, and fear does not force you to hasten the larceny of love. When there is danger of delay, it is useful to lean with all your strength on the trains and give the spur to your courier launched at all speed.

• Poetry
• Erotic

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Ovide : The Heroides

Author

Heroins suffer from the absence of the man they love and who, most often, has perfidibly abandoned them. How can they tell him their suffering? By inventing, to answer this question, the kind of love letter, both tragic monologue and lyrical cantate, Ovid explores the vertigo of wounded heroines. The accents of the Letters of Love still resonate in the confessions of Phèdre as in those of the Portuguese nun, or in t…

• Romance
• Poetry

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Ovide : Metamorphoses

Author

Very, very long ago gods, masters of the olympus, descended on the earth to mingle in the affairs of men. It was the time when they changed shape as they desired: swan, bull, golden rain... It was the time when they metamorphosed mortals, often to punish them, sometimes to reward them: deer, spider, laurel, rock... The wonderful time of heroes and monsters.

• Supernatural
• Poetry