The Art of Love Irony

The Art of Love Irony

Irony of profession

Ovid argues that women should find poets especially desirable. He says this because poets can flatter a woman through his verse and immortalize her. It seems ironic that Ovid is singing the praises of poets when he is a poet himself.

Irony of gender

Ovid was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Roman emperor Augustus. Despite this, his attitudes towards gender seem surprisingly progressive and are even more progressive than attitudes centuries after him. For example, Ovid argues that a man should think of a woman in the same way a soldier thinks of his superior.

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