Latin Love Lessons: Put a Little Ovid in Your Life - Hardcover
HardCover Pub Date: 2009 Pages: 192 in Publisher: Harper It was not just heated floors. hot baths. Aqueducts and paved roads that the Romans did first and best - they were also experts at the art of love. From the most effective pickup lines to percipient advice on getting over a eakup. from grooming tips to sex tips. the Romans had time-proof solutions. Charlotte Higgins ings them together in this indispensable guide to love - a collection of the richest. most illuminating. and sensuous writing about this mysterious emotion that can move us to joy or despair. Filled with the sage advice of Catullus. Virgil. Horace. Ovid. Propertius. and Tibullus. this witty. smart. and laugh-out-loud-funny handbook offers a fresh. new take on romance based on some of civilization's oldest adages.
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"Latin Love Lessons is written with a light touch and a sense of humour that makes it a delight to read. It's as useful to an A level Latin scholar as it is to anyone who has ever fallen in love..." -- Time Out, September 2007
"a funny, gloriously erudite and charming book" -- Scotland on Sunday, September 2007
"an engaging and very funny follow-up volume to Harry Mount's Amo, Amas, Amat..." -- The Guardian, October 2007
About the Author:
"a funny, gloriously erudite and charming book" -- Scotland on Sunday, September 2007
"an engaging and very funny follow-up volume to Harry Mount's Amo, Amas, Amat..." -- The Guardian, October 2007
Charlotte Higgins has worked for the Guardian for 10 years in various guises, from 2001 as Classical Music Editor and from 2003 as Arts correspondent, covering cultural affairs for the paper's news section. She is also a regular contributor to its features and op-ed pages; and blogs regularly on its website. She began her career in journalism on Vogue magazine after a stint writing mail-order catalogue copy for a firm selling kitsch history-themed gifts. She read classics at Balliol College, Oxford.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0061547425
- ISBN 13 9780061547423
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages191
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