Ovid
Fasti
Augustus
Elegy
Latin narrative elegy
Augustan poetry
Roman calendar
Elegiac distich
Vergil
Aeneid
Propertius
Hercules
Evander
Germanicus
Carmenta
Cacus
Pater patriae
Pontifex maximus
Mars ultor
Romulus
Remus
Anna Perenna
Parilia
Iulius Caesar
Lemuria
Aetion
Description:
Abstract:
The book attempts to provide 1. an introduction to Ovid's Fasti and 2. translation, commentary and interpretive readings of selected passages from the poem. The aim is to allow readers to know this Latin work, for which there is no study in Greek, to appreciate Ovid’s poetic modes, to recognize the possibilities of the narrative elegy in a generic context (especially compared to the Virgilian epic) and to get an idea from the various interpretations that Ovidian art leaves open in both the context of the late years of Augustan principate and of the intertextual dialogue with the Augustan literature.