Ovid on Cosmetics Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts

The Medicamina Faciei Femineae is a didactic elegy which showcases an early example of Ovid's trademark combination of a moralistic, instructive form and trivial subject and meter. Exploring female beauty and cosmetics, with particular emphasis on the concept of 'cultus', the poem als...

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Main Author: Johnson, Marguerite (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 2016
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