. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. thers may be wicked jthrough ignorance, or by accident, or out of high animal spirits, Ibut Ovid is immoral on principle, a conscientious and industrious Iperverter. His greatest work, The Art of Loving, is quite 1frankly a guide to adultery, the precepts it contains being jperfectly practical and evidently based on expert his A mores. Metamorphoses, and Fasti he took for his fieldthe domain of religion and exhibited celestial sin in the mostcaptivating light. We have already seen how the loves ofthe gods c
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. thers may be wicked jthrough ignorance, or by accident, or out of high animal spirits, Ibut Ovid is immoral on principle, a conscientious and industrious Iperverter. His greatest work, The Art of Loving, is quite 1frankly a guide to adultery, the precepts it contains being jperfectly practical and evidently based on expert his A mores. Metamorphoses, and Fasti he took for his fieldthe domain of religion and exhibited celestial sin in the mostcaptivating light. We have already seen how the loves ofthe gods came to take their place in the Olympian mythology, Iand how thinking pagans like Plato regarded them. To such men they were already relics of barbarism, but Ovid draws ithem out into the light again, gilds them with his wit and |makes them altogether charming for the Roman drawing-room. ]The strange and uncouth old ritual of Italian nature-worship ]is piquantly dressed out for the up-to-date blasphemer. No- ibody who had read Ovid could possibly worship Jupiter any i240. QZ < in D Xz ^ < zg 11 w
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