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  title info:
    title: Festivals in Latin literature
    sub title: the poetics of celebration
  name:
    name part: Walter, Anke
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: 315 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti. Festivals in Latin Literature explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic poetry, as well as historiography. In all of these, festivals play a more pervasive role than has so far been realised. Tibullus' elegiac oeuvre rests on an interplay between amatory and festive poetics that even has a political meaning to it, and Propertius uses festivals in his fourth book of elegies to question, from an amatory perspective, the memory typically associated with some key Roman festivals. In the poetry of Sulpicia and Ovid's Tristia, festivals allow voices that are otherwise marginalised to shape their own fame and commemoration. Horace's Odes and the Carmen saeculare rest on an intriguing interplay of festivity in the private sphere, which forms but a fleeting and precious moment, and the monumentality of public festivals, in which the poet styles himself as a master of Roman time. Post-Vergilian Latin epicists use festivals to explore the fragility of human identity in a world dominated by the gods, in Ovid's Metamorphoses, and to question further the commemoration connected with festive days. In particular, Statius in his Thebaid undermines the foundational importance of festivals in the Aeneid, vividly staging the problematic meaning of festivals that convey a premature commemoration of an epic conflict that is unspeakable (nefas). Finally, in Livy's ab urbe condita and Tacitus' Histories, festivals both provide structure and capture long-term developments in Roman history, including Rome's rise to power and the collapse of its morals, while situating both works in broader historiographical and intertextual dialogues. The book sheds new light on these authors and works, uncovering their unique 'festive poetics'. It demonstrates that Latin literature adds important new aspects to our general understanding of festivals, which, …
  table of contents: 1. Festivals in Love Elegy -- 2. Elegiac Appendices: Sulpicia and Ovid's Tristia -- 3. Festivals in Horace's Odes -- 4. Festivals in Epic -- 5. Festivals in Historiography.
  note: Anke Walter.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Latin poetry
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Latin poetry
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Festivals in literature
  subject:
    topic: Poésie latine
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Poésie latine
    topic: Historiographie
  classification: PA6029.F4 W35 2025
  classification: 871/.0109
  identifier: 9780198931454
  identifier: 019893145X
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 241219
    record change date: 20250829153555.7
    record identifier: in00005662621
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng