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 116
... clear in their pairing of the months . The later poet also clearly sees the renaming of the menses Quintilis and Sextilis 85 in honor of Julius Caesar and Augustus as continuing this pattern of paired contiguous months : in the ...
... clear in their pairing of the months . The later poet also clearly sees the renaming of the menses Quintilis and Sextilis 85 in honor of Julius Caesar and Augustus as continuing this pattern of paired contiguous months : in the ...
Page 179
... clear , but it is likely that they too were restored under his care or direction . 15 This grafting of the dies natales of temples onto his own demonstrates clearly Augustus ' use of a malleable calendrical tradition to empha- size and ...
... clear , but it is likely that they too were restored under his care or direction . 15 This grafting of the dies natales of temples onto his own demonstrates clearly Augustus ' use of a malleable calendrical tradition to empha- size and ...
Page 278
... clearly become a dynastic monument ( see above , Ch . 1 ) . In addition , as I have been suggesting , evocations of ... clear from Dio's own evidence that Gaius had been groomed for some years for a very early entrance into public life ...
... clearly become a dynastic monument ( see above , Ch . 1 ) . In addition , as I have been suggesting , evocations of ... clear from Dio's own evidence that Gaius had been groomed for some years for a very early entrance into public life ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter One The politics of tempora | 21 |
The calendrical model | 73 |
Copyright | |
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