Name: Ovid on Cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts (en Inglés)
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Author: Johnson, Marguerite
ISBN: 9781472506573

portada Ovid on Cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Marguerite Johnson

Editorial

Bloomsbury Academic

Año

2016

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

192

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4 x 15.7 x 1.5 cm

Peso

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781472506573

Categorías

Estudios literarios antiguos, clásicos y medievales
Estudios literarios de poesías y poetas
Estudios y grupos de género

Ovid on Cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts (en Inglés)

Marguerite Johnson (Autor) · Bloomsbury Academic · Tapa Blanda

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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. The Medicamina Faciei Femineae is a didactic elegy that showcases an early example of Ovid's trademark combination of poetic instruction and trivial subject matter. Exploring female beauty and cosmeceuticals, with particular emphasis on the concept of cultus, the poem presents five practical recipes for treatments for Roman women. Covering both didactic parody and pharmacological reality, this deceptively complex poem possesses wit and vivacity and provides an important insight into Roman social mores and day-to-day activities. The first full study in English devoted to this little-researched but multi-faceted poem, Ovid on Cosmetics includes an introduction that 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. The Latin text is presented on parallel pages alongside a new translation, and all Latin words and phrases are translated for the non-specialist reader. Detailed commentary notes elucidate the text and individual phrases still further. Ovid on Cosmetics presents and explicates this witty, subversive yet significant poem. Its attention to the technicalities of cosmeceuticals and cosmetics, including detailed analyses of individual ingredients and the effects of specific creams and makeup, make this work a significant contribution to the beauty industry in antiquity.