Each of Ovid's Amores presents a slightly different view of love. Many of his poems have connections with each other, for example 3.4 and 2.19 (both involving a custos and a puella), but they also differ enormously (3.4 and 2.19 present almost opposite arguments). This leads to the conclusion that perhaps Ovid is highlighting how love changes depending on the situation. In 3.2 we see Ovid use his rhetorical skill to woo a woman at the races. This poem seems to present almost an idealistic or fantastic vision of love, highlighted by the abundance of mythological and religious references: in this poem alone we see Pelops, the legs of Atalanta and Diana and the parade of effigies of the gods. Ovid uses various devices to encapsulate his little world of love in the circus. He delimits his area by talking about the lines that delimit the places (“cogit nos linea iungi”) that unite the two characters in their little world. When, in lines 21 to 24, their little world is broken into by various other spectators, Ovid turns on them and rebukes them, which is emphasized by the har...