Chase (metaphor)
Ovid, through the three books of The Art of Love, often compares courtship to chase. According to him, lovers should act like hunters, studying their preys, their habitat, and habits to take every opportunity for luring the loved into a trap.
War (metaphor)
Another recurring image used by Ovid to represent love is the war metaphor. The Latin poet compares love to a war, in which two different armies collide on a battlefield. Every gender has specific weapons, the ones that Ovid provides in his poem to his readers. According to him, to win the war, it's necessary not to get emotionally involved after the first battle, the conquest one.
Landing (metaphor)
Ovid likens the restored peace of the lover (amator) - after his evils of love - to a joyful landing after the storm. In The Art of Love there is another similar but opposed image, the Venus Sea one, that is the metaphor of the disappointed and abandoned lover, wrecked because of the beloved woman's excessive requests.
