Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 254 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0801430801
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0801466954
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9780801430800
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9780801466953
Series Statement:
Cornell studies in classical philology volume 55
Content:
Newlands maintains that, despite the Fasti's basic adherence to the format of the calendar, the text is carefully constructed to reflect the tensions within its subject: the new Roman year. Ovid plays with the calendar. Through the alteration or omission of significant dates, through skilled juxtapositions, through multiple narrators and the development of an increasingly unreliable authorial persona, Ovid opens to a critical and often humorous scrutiny the political ideology of the calendar. By adding astronomical observations and aetiological explanations for certain constellations, Newlands says, Ovid introduced the richly allusive world of Greek mythology to the calendar. Newlands restores the poem to a position of importance, one displaying Ovid's wit and intellect at its best. The incompleteness of the Fasti, she adds, is a comment on the discord that characterized Augustus' later years and led to enforced silences
Content:
Ovid's Fasti, unlike his Metamorphoses, is anchored in Rome: religion, history and legend, monuments, and character. The poem interprets the Augustan period not as a golden age of peace and prosperity, Carole E. Newlands asserts, but as an age of experimentation, negotiation, compromise, and unresolved tensions
Content:
Introduction : the problem of Ovid's Fasti -- Stellar connections -- Narrator and interlocutors in Ovid's Fasti -- The temple of Mars Ultor -- Priapus revisited -- The silence of Lucretia -- Portraits of the artist -- The ending of Ovid's Fasti
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and indexes
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Newlands, Carole Elizabeth Playing with time
Language:
English
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