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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... meaning as it moves through these changes . 8 That the calendar does , in fact , ' make meaning ' needs a bit of attention before we go further . J. Scheid has argued that the sub- stantial variation in contents among the extant ...
... meaning as it moves through these changes . 8 That the calendar does , in fact , ' make meaning ' needs a bit of attention before we go further . J. Scheid has argued that the sub- stantial variation in contents among the extant ...
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... meaning If Ovid's use of the month as the major subdivision of his materia implies that the month means something as ... meaning of the month - names but also the order of the months as significant , as a piece of the calendrical ...
... meaning If Ovid's use of the month as the major subdivision of his materia implies that the month means something as ... meaning of the month - names but also the order of the months as significant , as a piece of the calendrical ...
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... meanings built by the interaction between celebrations , are always only suggested and never prescribed . The Julio - Claudian holidays do not , indeed cannot , freeze meaning in the calendar ; they depend on the openness of the cal ...
... meanings built by the interaction between celebrations , are always only suggested and never prescribed . The Julio - Claudian holidays do not , indeed cannot , freeze meaning in the calendar ; they depend on the openness of the cal ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter One The politics of tempora | 21 |
The calendrical model | 73 |
Copyright | |
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