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Lessons in love in Latin
16 October 2007
Mary Beard talks to Jenni Murray on Woman's hour.
What can we learn from the Roman poets?
What can a collection of 2000-year-old poems teach us about modern romance? Lovers and would-be lovers can find a huge amount of advice in Roman poetry – from Ovid’s tips on picking up girls, to Catullus’s suggestions on dealing with a broken heart and Virgil’s textbook case of how not to dump a girlfriend.
Jenni Murray talks to Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s arts correspondent and author of a new book Latin Love Lessons, and Mary Beard, professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge.
You can listen to this episode of Woman's Hour, first broadcast on 16 October 2007, if you click here.
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