Ovid on Cosmetics.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Marguerite (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Online Access:CONNECT