Despite the dearth of contemporary witnesses for the late Augustan and early Tiberian Principates, Ovid's Fasti has remained curiously untapped as a historical source for the period. The aim of this new research is to show that the poem of some five thousand lines on the Roman c…
Ovid Fasti Book 2
by Robinson, Matthew, Ovidius Naso, Publius
fromOxford classical monographs
Ovid, Fasti, book 2
by Robinson, Matthew, (Matthew John), Ovid
fromOxford classical monographs
The 'Fasti' is one of Ovid's most complex, inventive, and remarkable works. This commentary on Book 2 guides the reader towards a fuller appreciation of the poem, through detailed analysis of its religious, historical, political, and literary background.
Ovid Fasti book 2
by Ovid, Robinson, Matthew, (Matthew John)
fromOxford classical monographs
Ovid, best known for the epic Metamorphoses, offers in his Fasti the self-proclaimed goal of exploring and explicating the Roman calendar. Published circa 14 CE, the Fasti presents claims of aetiological, astronomical, and even antiquarian interests, but more importantly the poe…
Ovid, best known for the epic Metamorphoses, offers in his Fasti the self-proclaimed goal of exploring and explicating the Roman calendar. Published circa 14 CE, the Fasti presents claims of aetiological, astronomical, and even antiquarian interests, but more importantly the poe…