Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XV, 297 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004527041
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne volume 466
Content:
Ovid’s Fasti offers multifocal views of Augustan religion to convey ambivalences, inconsistencies and paradoxes in the imperial family’s religious agenda. Darja Šterbenc Erker explores Ovid's irreverent and ambiguous presentations of calendrical aeitiologies, deifications and imperial gods that humorously call to mind Arachne’s tapestry depicting faulty gods and that stand in sharp contrast to the poet’s more serious discussions of the values he cherishes, such as freedom and poetic immortality. Especially in the exilic revisions of the poem, Ovid emphasises the motif of bestowing divine honours upon mortals through poetry. For him, the stars in the heavens do not represent deified statesmen but immortal authors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004527034
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Šterbenc Erker, Darja Ambiguity and religion in Ovid's Fasti Leiden : Brill, 2023 ISBN 9789004527034
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004527036
Language:
English
Keywords:
Ovidius Naso, Publius v43-17 Fasti
DOI:
10.1163/9789004527041
Author information:
Šterbenc Erker, Darja
