Ovid's Erotic Poems SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology An at times heart-catching departure

An at times heart-catching departure from the polemics and social criticism that have made Horowitz one of our most controversial public intellectuals

of criminal poisoning charges

and paraphernalia that they hold or carry

whereas texts about women accused of giving birth to monstrous children define the mother's contribution to conception in terms of corrupted

Ovid's Erotic Poems SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology An at times heart-catching departureThe most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is perhaps best known for his oft imitated Metamorphoses. But the Roman poet also wrote lively and lewd verse on the subjects of love, sex, marriage, and adulterya playful parody of the earnest erotic poetry traditions established by his literary ancestors. The Amores, Ovid's first completed book of poetry, explores the conventional mode of erotic elegy