A look at the History of written Culture: wax tablets of love and feminine writing in Ovid’s Art of love and Lovest

Abstract

Literature, within the context of the classical Roman world, is proposed as a field of study for constructing the history of written culture, and in particular, of women's written culture. The aim is to help uncover the places, gestures, and practices that accompanied the reading and writing processes during the production of Ovid's work, focusing the analysis on two of his main works, The Art of Love and Loves. This is accompanied by a detailed account of the methodology used in the study and its links to the social diversity of the historical period, considering literature as a product of the society that generated it or the one it attempts to recreate.