A modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovids Remedies for Love --a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of love Breakups are the worst.
On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouses death was ranked as more stressful than a marital split.
Is there any treatment for a breakup? The ancient Roman poet Ovid thought so.
Having become famous for teaching the art of seduction in The Art of Love , he then wrote Remedies for Love ( Remedia Amoris ), which presents thirty-eight frank and witty strategies for coping with unrequited love, falling out of love, ending a relationship, and healing a broken heart.
How to Get Over a Breakup presents an unabashedly modern prose translation of Ovids lighthearted and provocative work, complete with a lively introduction and the original Latin on facing pages.
Ovids advice--which he illustrates with ingenious interpretations of classical mythology--ranges from the practical, psychologically astute, and profound to the ironic, deliberately offensive, and bizarre.
Some advice is conventional--such as staying busy, not spending time alone, and avoiding places associated with an ex.
Some is off-color, such as having sex until youre sick of it.
And some is simply and delightfully weird--such as becoming a lawyer and not eating arugula.
Whether his advice is good or bad, entertaining or outrageous, How to Get Over a Breakup reveals an Ovid who sounds startlingly modern.
Meg Appelgate
200.51 Lei
Collin Varner
83.42 Lei
