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Title

  • Ovid on cosmetics : Medicamina faciei femineae and related texts

Summary

  • "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"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. author.
  • Johnson, Marguerite, 1965- author, translator.
  • Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

Created / Published

  • London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Headings

  • -  Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.--Criticism and interpretation
  • -  Cosmetics--Poetry--Early works to 1800
  • -  Didactic poetry, Latin--Translations into English
  • -  HISTORY / Ancient / General
  • -  LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
  • -  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-157) and indexes.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xi, 171 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PA6519.D4

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020715162

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D. Author, and 43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D Ovid. Ovid on cosmetics: Medicamina faciei femineae and related texts. translateds by Johnson, Marguerite, Author London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715162/.

APA citation style:

Ovid, 4. B. C. -. A. D. O. 1. A. D. A. & Ovid, 4. B. C. -. A. D. O. 1. A. D. (2016) Ovid on cosmetics: Medicamina faciei femineae and related texts. Johnson, M., trans London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715162/.

MLA citation style:

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D. Author, and 43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D Ovid. Ovid on cosmetics: Medicamina faciei femineae and related texts. trans by Johnson, Marguerite, Author London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715162/>.