Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar

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This book considers the relationship between the Fasti, Ovid's long poem on the Roman calendar, and the calendar itself, conceived of as consisting both in the rites and commemorations it organizes and in its graphic representation. The Fasti treats the calendar, recently revised by Caesar and Augustus, as its most important cultural model and as a quasi-literary 'intertext': the poem simultaneously reshapes and is itself shaped by the calendar. The study includes chapters on Book 4 and the rites of April, on the addition of Julio-Claudian holidays to the calendar, and on the final two books of the poem as shaped by the renaming of the months Quintilis and Sextilis for Julius Caesar and Augustus.

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Preliminary Material
页码: i–xiii
INTRODUCTION
页码: 1–19
THE POLITICS OF TEMPORA
页码: 21–72
VENUS’ MONTH
页码: 126–173
LOOKING FORWARD TO JULY
页码: 217–292
CONCLUSION
页码: 293–296
WORKS CITED
页码: 297–308
INDEX LOCORUM
页码: 309–316
GENERAL INDEX
页码: 317–326
PLATES
页码: Plate 1–Plate 3
Molly Pasco-Pranger, Ph.D. (1998) in Classical Studies, University of Michigan, is Assistant Professor of Classics at The University of Mississippi. She has published articles on the Fasti and vatic poetics in Classical World (2000) and in Clio and the Poets (Brill, 2002).
All those interested in Ovid and Roman poetry, in the history of the Augustan and early imperial periods, or in Roman religion.
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