Ovid's Fasti : historical readings at its bimillennium /
This book celebrates the bimillennial anniversary of the inception of Ovid's Fasti by offering a variety of approaches to Ovid's poem on the Roman religious calendar. The volume does not aim at consensus but provides a collection of differing interpretations and perspectives of Fasti schol...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Classical Studies module. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book celebrates the bimillennial anniversary of the inception of Ovid's Fasti by offering a variety of approaches to Ovid's poem on the Roman religious calendar. The volume does not aim at consensus but provides a collection of differing interpretations and perspectives of Fasti scholars without allowing any single prejudice to prevail. In reconstructing the value-systems which inform the poem, twelve contributors discuss topics such as the calendar, religion, politics, women, mime, myth, theatre, cult, astronomy, astrology, theology, intertextuality, gender, poetic ecphrasis, speech, time, and space. The tension arising from the discrepancy in interpretation and approach in the essays is an apt reflection of the tension arising from the contradictory and elusive nature of the Fasti itself. It will engage all those interested in the relationship between literature and society during the early Roman Principate. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 327 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-314) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780191518447 0191518441 9781281930255 1281930253 9780191715457 019171545X |