Ovid on Cosmetics Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts
The 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 als...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Academic
2016
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |