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 53
... close connection to Augustus , to which power rightly belonged and from which future rulers would come.81 The Fasti's emphasis on the domus Augusta appears primarily in Book 1 , and for the most part belongs to the post - exilic ...
... close connection to Augustus , to which power rightly belonged and from which future rulers would come.81 The Fasti's emphasis on the domus Augusta appears primarily in Book 1 , and for the most part belongs to the post - exilic ...
Page 138
... close together in the month of April . In the Fasti , in fact , the Fordicidia ( 4.628–72 ) is positioned between Ovid's treatment of the ludi Ceriales and the Cerealia proper . In Book 1 , in his entry for the Feriae Semen- tivae ...
... close together in the month of April . In the Fasti , in fact , the Fordicidia ( 4.628–72 ) is positioned between Ovid's treatment of the ludi Ceriales and the Cerealia proper . In Book 1 , in his entry for the Feriae Semen- tivae ...
Page 171
... close of the Floralia passage , we cannot rule out a third referent in the poem itself . Flora's power to grant poetic success is figured as a sprinkling of flowers on the poet and his work ; the crowning of Ovid's tempora , i.e. , the ...
... close of the Floralia passage , we cannot rule out a third referent in the poem itself . Flora's power to grant poetic success is figured as a sprinkling of flowers on the poet and his work ; the crowning of Ovid's tempora , i.e. , the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter One The politics of tempora | 21 |
The calendrical model | 73 |
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