Ovid on Cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts by Marguerite Johnson

Ovid on Cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts

Marguerite Johnson

192 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics gender literary poetry
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The Medicamina Faciei Femineae is a didactic elegy that showcases an early example of Ovid's trademark combination of poetic instruction and trivial subject matter. Exploring female beauty and cosmeceuticals, with particular emphasis on the concep...

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