Ars Amatoria
by Ovid · first published 1494
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Originally published Manchester: Carcanet, 2003.
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I was intrigued by the reference to "Ovid’s frank advice on meeting women at the theater". This seems to refer to the "Ars Amatoria" which is an interesting read in its own right. Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Amatoria Full text (English translation):http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Artoflovehome...
on “Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist” ↗Ars amatoria - Ovid (a book on picking up women, TL;DR: things have not changed much since back in the ancient Rome) On speeches - Cicero (the only book that breaks down a speech is such a detail, same thing as above)…
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?” ↗One cool thing about learning Latin in high school was reading books from two-thousand years ago. Take Ovid's Ars Amatoria for example. He was the original PUA (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Amatoria): "The first two books, aimed at men, contain sections which cover such topics as 'not forgetting her birthday',…
on “Declaration of Independence in American (1921)” ↗The founder seems to have missed the opportunity to make a classical reference to Ovid's writing on love, instead constructing some ungrammatical Latin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Amatoria
on “Basic Social Skills Guide” ↗Because many men feel lonely and sexually invisible. Isn't there a trend that goes a lot further back than that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Amatoria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses Looking at my collection of literature I see some evidence of a "seduction industry" aimed at woman from 1945 to 2000 or so, but today I think…
on “50 years of pickup artists: why is the toxic skill still so in demand? (2019)” ↗