Ovid Flashcards
(6 cards)
1
Q
Rimmel - Art
A
In Ovid, ‘love is art’ and artifice is not an ‘irrational passion’.
2
Q
Beard - Spuriously technical
A
‘You could never follow these spuriously technical instructions : thats the joke.’
3
Q
Sharrock - Alternative
A
Ovid sets up sex as an ‘alternative to citizenship’.
4
Q
Green - propaganda
A
Calls Ovid a conscious propaganda for seduction and a teacher of adultery and argues that it is clearly a ‘morally subversive poem’.
5
Q
Green - Manipulate
A
Says Ovid is showing girls how to manipulate ‘male stupidity’.
6
Q
Green - Ovid’s masochism
A
The tactics of deprival and competition reveal Ovid’s ‘obvious masochistic pleasure in love’s servitude’.
