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 119
... reading practices called for by the poem . Ovid's concern not to break the series rerum implies that the Fasti asks for continuous reading . On the one hand , this may seem to speak against the modern habit of reading the Fasti as if it ...
... reading practices called for by the poem . Ovid's concern not to break the series rerum implies that the Fasti asks for continuous reading . On the one hand , this may seem to speak against the modern habit of reading the Fasti as if it ...
Page 124
... reader of the cal- endar must look for guidance from the calendrical structure ; his read- ings will be shaped by the calendar , but are , ultimately , his own . Ovid's poem emerges as just such a reading , interpreting the cal ...
... reader of the cal- endar must look for guidance from the calendrical structure ; his read- ings will be shaped by the calendar , but are , ultimately , his own . Ovid's poem emerges as just such a reading , interpreting the cal ...
Page 294
... reading ' encour- aged by calendrical structures . Where Ovid appears to have purely invented aetia or connections among rites , we can nonetheless fre- quently see the calendrical impulse behind the invention : if the cal- endar asked ...
... reading ' encour- aged by calendrical structures . Where Ovid appears to have purely invented aetia or connections among rites , we can nonetheless fre- quently see the calendrical impulse behind the invention : if the cal- endar asked ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter One The politics of tempora | 21 |
The calendrical model | 73 |
Copyright | |
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