Founding the year : Ovid's Fasti and the poetics of the Roman calendar / by Molly Pasco-Pranger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pasco-Pranger, Molly.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 0169-8958 276.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 276. 0169-8958

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Fasti.

Ovid.

Didactic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Didactic poetry, Latin.

Literature and society--Rome.

Literature and society.

Fasts and feasts in literature.

Calendar in literature.

Time in literature.

Rome--In literature.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Ch. 1. The politics of tempora

Ch. 2. Praeceptor anni : the calendrical model and the Fasti's didactic project

Ch. 3. Venus' month

Ch. 4. Quoscumque sacris addidit ille dies : the Julio-Claudian holidays

Ch. 5. Looking forward to July.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliograpical references (p. [297]-308) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-39921-3

9786611399214

90-474-0959-0

OCLC:

568279515

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047409595 DOI