Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Ovid, Ars Amatoria, 2.470
rend= New eggs they take, Especially hens and partridges, which, as Almansor teaches, are wonderfully provocative. Pliny says they are very nourishing if not eaten to excess. and honey's liquid juice
rend= Forests allowed the creatures a home: air the birds: fish took shelter in the running streams. Then the human race wandered the empty wilds, a thing of naked strength and brutish body: woods were its home, grass its food, leaves its bed: and for a long time no man knew another. They say sweet delights softened savage spirits: when man and woman rested in one place: they had no teacher to show them what to do: Venus did her work without sweet art.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

2 results
1. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 5.1011-5.1090 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
2. Ovid, Ars Amatoria, 2.425, 2.477 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
boethius, cosmic amor, conception of	Fielding, Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity (2017) 178
boethius	Fielding, Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity (2017) 178
daedalus and icarus	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 76
epicureanism	Fielding, Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity (2017) 178
epicurus/epicureanism, hedonic calculus	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 76
epicurus/epicureanism	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 76
lucretius	Fielding, Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity (2017) 178; Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 76
maximianus, cosmic themes in greek girls song	Fielding, Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity (2017) 178
maximianus	Fielding, Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity (2017) 178
miller, john f.	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 76
ovid, and epicurus	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 76
ovid, cosmogony in	Fielding, Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity (2017) 178
ovid, hedonic calculus in	Williams and Vol, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher (2022) 76
schneider, wolfgang christian'	Fielding, Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity (2017) 178