Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris

The Ovidian Renaissance seems to have left the Remedia Amoris behind. The poem has remained marginal, read either as a reversal of the Ars Amatoria''s teaching that brings the world of Ovidian elegy to a banal end, or as an over-determined supplement to the Ars which ironically fails in its ostensible aim of ''curing'' the dissatisfied lover. While recent work has explored how the poem functions n...