Rebecca
I highly recommend anyone interested in ancient love manuals or texts like I do to check out
Ars amatoria (Latin: 'Art of Love') which is a poem in three books by the Roman poet Ovid.


The Love Books of Ovid translated in English can be read for free at http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/lboo/>

I was really inspired and entertained on the advice and thoughts an ancient text could afford on the topics of: acquiring love, how to play footsie under the table while eating dinner with your husband next to you, writing love letters & poems, and upbraiding ones hair.