Ovid on cosmetics : : Medicamina faciei femineae and related texts / / [Ovid] ; Marguerite Johnson.

"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 pract...

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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (193 p.)
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Table of Contents:
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  • Introduction
  • Medicamina Faciei Femineae: Latin text and [English] translation
  • Commentary
  • Selected passages from Ars Amatoria and Amores: Latin text and [English] translation
  • Commentary
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  • Bibliography
  • Index.