id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9446 Ovid - Wikipedia .html text/html 12760 1479 72 Ovid's next poem, the Medicamina Faciei, a fragmentary work on women's beauty treatments, preceded the Ars Amatoria, the Art of Love, a parody of didactic poetry and a three-book manual about seduction and intrigue, which has been dated to AD 2 (Books 1–2 would go back to 1 BC[16]). In 1985, a research paper by Fitton Brown advanced new arguments in support of Hartman's theory.[27] Brown's article was followed by a series of supports and refutations in the short space of five years.[28] Among the supporting reasons Brown presents are: Ovid's exile is only mentioned by his own work, except in "dubious" passages by Pliny the Elder[29] and Statius,[30] but no other author until the 4th century;[31] that the author of Heroides was able to separate the poetic "I" of his own and real life; and that information on the geography of Tomis was already known by Virgil, by Herodotus and by Ovid himself in his Metamorphoses.[d][32] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9446.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9446.txt