Premium Content The Justification of Rape in Ovid's The Art of Love
By Marisol Portillo - October 15, 2008
By 18 BC, morality among the citizens of Rome had depleted by such degree that the emperor was impelled to enact the lex Julia de maritandis ordinibus, which instituted adultery as a crime punishable by death or exile. This was the Rome of Ovid’s time, but more importantly this was the audience for whom The Art of Love was written. When…
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