Ovid, Aratus and Augustus: Astronomy in Ovid's FastiThis book explores how astronomy and power were linked in the early Roman Empire. This is achieved by careful study of the Fasti by the Roman poet Ovid--a poem about the Roman calendar which contains many references to and stories about the stars. The author does not study Ovid's stars by using the techniques of mathematical astronomy but aims to combine the methodology of recent genre-based readings with a broad cultural perspective. |
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Contents
Calendrical astronomy? | 9 |
Astronomy and genre | 21 |
Verse and universe in Aratus Phaenomena | 66 |
Vesta and the architecture of the Fasti | 92 |
Roman Aratus | 126 |
The metamorphosis of time | 154 |
Epilogue | 188 |
Technical problems of Ovids astronomy | 205 |
| 219 | |
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Aeneas Aeneid aetiological appears Aratean Aratus astral astronomical Augustan Augustus Bears become beginning bodies Caesar calendar Callimachus Callisto Capella Capricorn catasterism celestial chapter Cicero circle close comet Compare connection constellations context dates described didactic divine earth elegy elements epic etymology Eudoxus example expressed fact Fasti figure follows Georgics Germanicus given gives globe Greek heaven heavenly Hymn idea important Julian Jupiter Kidd kind language literary look Manilius material means Metamorphoses myth nature Newlands Note opposition original Ovid Ovid's panegyric parallel passage Phaenomena poem poet poetic poetry political present proem Propertius provides quae reading reason reference rising Roman Rome seems seen Servius setting Shield similar sources sphere stars Stoic structure takes tells theme tradition translation universe Vesta Virgil writing Zeus δε
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| Title | Ovid, Aratus and Augustus: Astronomy in Ovid's Fasti Cambridge Classical Studies |
| Authors | Emma Gee, Lecturer in Classics Emma Gee |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0521651875, 9780521651875 |
| Length | 226 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / General Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism / Poetry |
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