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dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Marguerite
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-08 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-14 03:00:35
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T10:49:09Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T10:49:09Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier1004312
dc.identifierOCN: 1100500876en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25777
dc.description.abstractThe 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 also presents five practical recipes for cosmetic treatments used by Roman women. Covering both didactic parody and pharmacological reality, this deceptively complex poem possesses wit, vivacity and importance. The first full study devoted to this little-researched but multi-faceted poem, Ovid on Cosmetics includes an in-depth introduction which situates the poem within its literary heritage of didactic and elegiac poetry, its place in Ovid's oeuvre and its relevance to social values, personal aesthetics and attitudes to female beauty in Roman society.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medievalen_US
dc.subject.otherClassics
dc.subject.otherAncient Rome
dc.subject.otherAncient History
dc.subject.otherOvid
dc.subject.otherCosmetics
dc.subject.otherFemale Beauty
dc.titleOvid on Cosmetics
dc.title.alternativeMedicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5040/9781474218696
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9781472514424, 9781472506573
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.place.publicationLondon
oapen.grant.number102546
oapen.grant.programKU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books
grantor.number102546
oapen.identifier.ocn1100500876


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