victoria rimmel ars amatoria

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  • victoria rimell ars amatoria 3
    • purpose and intended audience
      • refers to girls in the third person there is some who do this and some girls who do that
      • people at the time are forced to admit that the art of controlling passion will often fail.
      • guide on how to fit into the elagaic world, rather than on how to win in love.... women are being taught howto fit into mens fantasies thus all given advice is for the benefit of men.
    • humour
      • key to reading ovids erotodidatic works
      • satire
    • analysis
      • ive armed the greeks against the amazons; arms remain to give to you, Penthesilea, and your Amazon troop. Go equal to the fight.
        • gender war
  • mocking tradition , the pomposity of epic.
    • exposing himself to ridacule
    • humour
      • key to reading ovids erotodidatic works
      • satire
    • jokes presume knowledge and beliefs; also reveal tests and beliefs
    • 'anger swells the face'- ovid
  • plato, republic: guardians of the state should avoid laughter. Homer calls it 'unquenchable laughter'
    • ovid plays on these prior beliefs
    • beyond his description of womens laughter as ugly,crude, animalistic and potentially dangerous, Ovid condemns it still futher by offering no rembedy by which womens laughter can be made attractive
      • Merriam
      • passage on smiling
        • produses self conscieness
        • Beard 2014 'you could never follow these spuriously technical instructions; that the joke'
        • analysis
          • ive armed the greeks against the amazons; arms remain to give to you, Penthesilea, and your Amazon troop. Go equal to the fight.
            • gender war
    • seneca- anger as a vice
      • 'anger swells the face'- ovid
      • mocking tradition , the pomposity of epic.
        • exposing himself to ridacule
        • jokes presume knowledge and beliefs; also reveal tests and beliefs

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