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Festivals in Latin literature : the poetics of celebration /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walter, Anke (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Latin poetry > History and criticism.
Latin poetry > Historiography.
Festivals in literature.
Poésie latine > Histoire et critique.
Poésie latine > Historiographie.
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.