Resumen
El arte de amar is Ovid’s famously provocative poetic manual on the strategies of love and seduction in ancient Rome.
Written in elegiac couplets and divided into three books, the poem offers witty, ironic, and sometimes subversive advice to men—and later, to women—on how to find, win, and keep lovers.
Blending mythological references with sharp observations of Roman society, Ovid presents love as both a playful game and a refined art form.
Both celebrated and controversial in its time, El arte de amar led to Ovid's eventual exile, yet it remains one of the most influential and entertaining works in Western literary tradition.