Fasti
About this book
"One of the fullest and most enjoyable sources of information on Roman myth and religion, the Fasti is both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles and genres, comic, tragic, elegiac, epic and erotic. Yet many of them contain uncomfortable political echoes. Augustus tried to control his subjects by imposing his own version of history and annual cycle of festivals on them, but Ovid - banished to the Black Sea - brilliantly debunks the official heroes and power structures. (After celebrating the emperor as a Jupiter-on-earth, for example, he deliberately juxtaposes a story showing the king of gods as a savage rapist.) Endlessly playful, this is also a work of real integrity and courage, a superb climax to the career of one of Rome's greatest writers."--Jacket.
Subjects
- 871/.01
- calendar
- calendar in literature
- calendar--rome--poetry
- didactic poetry
- didactic poetry, latin
- didactic poetry, latin--history and criticism
- fasts and feasts
- fasts and feasts--poetry
- festivals
- history and criticism
- latin didactic poetry
- latin language materials
- latin poetry, translations into english
- love-letters
- love poetry, latin
- ovid , 43 b.c.-17 a.d. or 18 a.d
- ovid, 43 b.c.-17 a.d. or 18 a.d.
- pa6519.f6 a4 1998
- poetry
- poetry (poetic works by one author)
- religious life and customs
- rites and ceremonies
- rites and ceremonies--rome--poetry
- translations into english
- translations into french
- translations into german
- translations into italian