Author: Marie Helen Kaher
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Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Author: Horace Wetherill Wright
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Category : Calendar in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Steven Green
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047414179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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This commentary provides a detailed analysis of the first book of Ovid's Fasti, a complex poem which takes as its central framework the Roman calendar in the late Augustan/early Tiberian period and purports to deal with its religious festivals and their origins. Book 1 covers the month of January, and has proven to be particularly challenging to readers in light of the apparent revision/reworking of the text undertaken by the poet whilst in exile. This commentary - the most extensive yet on any single book of the poem - locates the text of Book 1 firmly in its literary, historical and socio-political contexts and seeks both to incorporate and build on the recent scholarship on the poem. In light of the special nature of Book 1, the commentary is prefaced by two introductory sections, the second of which tackles head-on the problems (and dynamics) of post-exilic reworking of the text.

Author: Darja Šterbenc Erker
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004527044
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Ovid's Fasti comments on Augustan religion by means of ambivalent aetiologies, elegiac jokes and subtle allusions to the religious self-fashioning of the imperial family. Darja Sterbenc Erker carefully reconstructs Ovid's subtle unmasking of religious fundaments of Augustus' principate.

Author: Geraldine Herbert-Brown
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191518441
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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This ground-breaking book celebrates the bimillennial anniversary of the inception of Ovid's Fasti by offering a variety of approaches to Ovid's poem on the Roman religious calendar. It is edited by Geraldine Herbert-Brown, whose Ovid and the Fasti (OUP, 1994) first highlighted the value of the poem as an important source for the late Augustan and early Tiberian period. The volume does not aim at consensus but brings together experts from around the world without allowing any single prejudice to prevail. It will engage all those interested in the relationship between literature and society during the early Roman Principate.

Author: Ovid
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521449960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Book IV of the Fasti, Ovid's celebration of the Roman calendar and its associated legends, is the book of April and honours the festivals of Venus, Cybele, Ceres, and their cult, as well as the traditional date of the foundation of Rome and many religious and civic anniversaries. Elaine Fantham accompanies her commentary with a revised text and an extended introduction. Besides including surveys of language, style, versification, and textual transmission, the introduction looks at the shifting generic traditions of Greek and Roman elegy, and situates Ovid's composite poem in its Augustan literary and historical context. Other sections explain the recurring religious, astronomical and dynastic material of the Fasti. It has been a particular concern to relate features of Book IV to the other books of the Fasti and to Ovid's other elegiac works, and the Metamorphoses.

Author: S. J. Heyworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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Presents a clear and detailed guide to a central book of the Fasti, Ovid's account of Rome and its calendar.

Author: Horace Wetherill Wright
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Category : Calendar in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Ovid
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Languages : la
Pages : 402

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Author: Horace Wetherill Wright
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656718818
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Excerpt from The Sacra Idulia in Ovid's Fasti: A Study of Ovid's Credibility in Regard to the Place and the Victim of This Sacrifice Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 3rd cd., London, 1891. Teufi'el and Schwabe, History of Roman Literature, translation from the fifth German edition by George C. W. Warr, Lon don, 1891. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.