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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... hand and his earlier corpus . The proem to Book 3 on the other hand dramatizes amatory elegy's con- ventional negotiation of its boundaries with the epic genre , as the poet asks Mars to disarm as he enters the poem and makes a lover of ...
... hand and his earlier corpus . The proem to Book 3 on the other hand dramatizes amatory elegy's con- ventional negotiation of its boundaries with the epic genre , as the poet asks Mars to disarm as he enters the poem and makes a lover of ...
Page 176
... hand seems to follow the princeps ' guiding hand , but also demon- strates the impossibility of his fully controlling the meanings built by the calendar's readers . Natalis Augusti Augustus ' birthday on September 23 offers the clearest ...
... hand seems to follow the princeps ' guiding hand , but also demon- strates the impossibility of his fully controlling the meanings built by the calendar's readers . Natalis Augusti Augustus ' birthday on September 23 offers the clearest ...
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... hand , a number of critics have read the poet's uncer- tainty and unwillingness to choose between the etymologies offered him in an essentially negative light : it is evidence of Ovid's lack of discrimination or real commitment to the ...
... hand , a number of critics have read the poet's uncer- tainty and unwillingness to choose between the etymologies offered him in an essentially negative light : it is evidence of Ovid's lack of discrimination or real commitment to the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter One The politics of tempora | 21 |
The calendrical model | 73 |
Copyright | |
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