How to be a Latin lover
Forget all those modern guides to dating. If you want to find a partner, the ancient Romans can tell you all you need to know. In an extract from her new book, Charlotte Higgins explains what we can learn from Ovid's Ars Amatoria
Read the article in the Guardian, which ends with this:Forget all those modern guides to dating. If you want to find a partner, the ancient Romans can tell you all you need to know. In an extract from her new book, Charlotte Higgins explains what we can learn from Ovid's Ars Amatoria
Extracted from Latin Love Lessons: Put a Little Ovid in Your
Life by Charlotte Higgins, published by Short Books on October 4 at
£12.99. To order a copy for £11.99 with free UK p&p go to guardian.co.uk/bookshop or call 0870 836 0875. All English translations are from Peter Green's The Erotic Poems by Ovid (Penguin Classics).
