 Following Ovid, depictions of sexual intercourse in the manuscript are frank and sometimes aggressive.CB 76, for example, makes use of the first-person narrative to describe a ten-hour love act with the goddess of love herself, Venus.The "Carmina Burana" contains numerous poetic descriptions of a raucous medieval paradise (CB 195–207, 211, 217, 219), for which the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, known for his advocation of the blissful life, is even taken as an authority on the subject (CB 211).