Law and Love in Ovid

In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous. Ovid''s legalisms have been described as frivolous, humorous, and ornamental. Law and Love in Ovid challenges this wide-spread, but ill-informed view. Legal discourse in Latin love poetry is not incidental, but fundamental. Inspired by recent work in the interdisciplinary fiel...