Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar
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Author | : Molly Pasco-Pranger |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2017-07-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789047409595 |
ISBN-13 | : 9047409590 |
Rating | : 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar by : Molly Pasco-Pranger
Book excerpt: This book gives serious consideration to the relationship between Ovid’s Fasti and the Roman calendar. The poem treats the calendar, recently revised by Caesar and Augustus, as its most important cultural model and as a quasi-literary 'intertext.'