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 9
... organization is not to be sought there any more than in Callimachus . This avenue of inquiry does a great deal towards explain- ing the etiological focus of the Fasti , and alerts us to the literary models against which the Fasti sets ...
... organization is not to be sought there any more than in Callimachus . This avenue of inquiry does a great deal towards explain- ing the etiological focus of the Fasti , and alerts us to the literary models against which the Fasti sets ...
Page 61
... organization of a society and the organization of a calendar . 101 While , as the lusus Troiae demonstrates , Augustus made a point of displaying the young elite , including and especially the children of his own family , from a very ...
... organization of a society and the organization of a calendar . 101 While , as the lusus Troiae demonstrates , Augustus made a point of displaying the young elite , including and especially the children of his own family , from a very ...
Page 107
... organized into categories of material , the poem's smaller sections fit into one book or another purely by virtue of their connection to one day or another in the course of the year . This organization and its apparent jumble of ...
... organized into categories of material , the poem's smaller sections fit into one book or another purely by virtue of their connection to one day or another in the course of the year . This organization and its apparent jumble of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter One The politics of tempora | 21 |
The calendrical model | 73 |
Copyright | |
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