Littlewood

A Commentary on Ovid's Fasti, Book 6

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ovid's Fasti, Book 6 is the last of his calendar poems. Joy Littlewood analyses Ovid's account of the festivals of June, and explores the subtle interrelationships of history, literature, religion, and politics in the Augustan age.

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After a period of neglect, Ovid's elegiac poem on the Roman calendar has been the focus of much recent scholarship. In her comprehensive and scholarly study of the final book, Joy Littlewood analyses Ovid's account of the origins of the festivals of June, demonstrating that Book 6 is effectively a commemoration of Roman War, and elegantly provides a framing bracket to balance the opening celebration of Peace in Book 1. She explores the subtle interweaving of
pietas and virtus in Roman religion and its relationship to Augustan ideology, the depth and accuracy of Ovid's antiquarianism, and his audacious expansion of generic boundaries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9780199271344
• ISBN-10: 0199271348
• Artikelnr.: 20813957

Autorenporträt

R. Joy Littlewood is an independent scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Ovid's Fasti in its historical context
2: Augustus' reorganization of Roman religion and its impact on Fasti VI
3: Genre and antiquarianism
4: Themes
5: Ovid's narrative technique
6: Ovid's debt to Livy in Fasti 6
7: The text
List of alternative readings
Structural outline of Ovid's calendar for June
Commentary
Bibliography

Rezensionen

This is a commentary that will be of significant and long-lasting value to Fasti scholarship Matthew Robinson, Journal of Roman Studies