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Previous scholarship has laid out some important groundwork on Ovid's use of Callimachus' Aetia as a model for the Fasti , yet some significant resemblances between the two poems have not been adequately recognized. The poems share notable structural features, and Ovid imitates …

This project examines the function of the city of Rome in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and Fasti. In doing so, it focuses on the ways in which Ovid plays with concepts and expectations of genre and gender in his depictions of Rome. As Ovid’s two major didactic elegies, the Ars Amatoria a…