Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar"This book considers the relationship between the Fasti, Ovid's long poem on the Roman calendar, and the calendar itself, conceived of as consisting both in the rites and commemorations it organizes and in its graphic representation. The Fasti treats the calendar, recently revised by Caesar and Augustus, as its most important cultural model and as a quasi-literary 'intertext': the poem simultaneously reshapes and is itself shaped by the calendar. The study includes chapters on Book 4 and the rites of April, on the addition of Julio-Claudian holidays to the calendar, and on the final two books of the poem as shaped by the renaming of the months Quintilis and Sextilis for Julius Caesar and Augustus."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Page 135
... Magna Mater passage twenty , and does so in a flat , third - person narrative . The preceding story of Magna Mater's advent is colorfully narrated by the muse Erato , directly quoting oracles , the words of the goddess , and those of ...
... Magna Mater passage twenty , and does so in a flat , third - person narrative . The preceding story of Magna Mater's advent is colorfully narrated by the muse Erato , directly quoting oracles , the words of the goddess , and those of ...
Page 136
... Magna Mater be sent to Rome , King Attalus ( after some supernatural encouragement ) sends her off with the expla- nation , in Phrygios Roma refertur avos ' [ ' Rome is traced back to Phrygian ancestors ' ] ( 269-72 ) , thus figuring ...
... Magna Mater be sent to Rome , King Attalus ( after some supernatural encouragement ) sends her off with the expla- nation , in Phrygios Roma refertur avos ' [ ' Rome is traced back to Phrygian ancestors ' ] ( 269-72 ) , thus figuring ...
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... Magna Mater show a pattern of composition that we will see recur in Fasti 4 , whereby a narrative or rite described in detail for one goddess seems to stand in for a similar narrative or rite of another goddess . Rather than describing ...
... Magna Mater show a pattern of composition that we will see recur in Fasti 4 , whereby a narrative or rite described in detail for one goddess seems to stand in for a similar narrative or rite of another goddess . Rather than describing ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter One The politics of tempora | 21 |
The calendrical model | 73 |
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