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A Donna Zuckerberg book’s third chapter, titled for this author’s “Method,” demands an ironic reading of his poem calling a mistress’ birthday “one of great terror.” Christopher Marlowe's translation of an elegy (-5[1])by this author changes some of the speaker’s lament of his impotence into insults toward his partner. The speaker of a poem by this author succumbs to being a “fresh prize” for a god who “stole a foot away” and shot him through the heart (15[1])with an (*) arrow. This poet unconventionally stuck to elegiac couplets for a didactic work that imagines the Rape of the Sabine Women as a theatrical production. (10[1])The first two of the three sections in that poetic work by this author give male readers advice on how to pick up women. For 10 points, (-5[1])name (10[1])this Roman poet of Amores and Ars Amatoria. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Ovid [or Publius Ovidius Naso, accept “The Ovid Method”] (the Donna Zuckerberg book is called Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age)
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