Ovid's women of the year : narratives of Roman identity in the Fasti / Angeline Chiu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chiu, Angeline, 1973-

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Roman love-poet Ovid, best known for the epic Metamorphoses, offers in his Fasti the self-proclaimed goal of exploring and explicating the Roman calendar. Published in his maturity circa 14 CE, the Fasti presents claims of aetiological, astronomical, and even antiquarian interests, but more importantly the poem highlights an extraordinary prominence of female characters at work, play, and worship in its verses. From flirtatious goddesses to talkative old women, beautiful puellae to stern prophetesses and beyond, Ovid's "calendar girls" appear in a vast and kaleidoscopic array of guises and narratives, importing and transforming literary genre and expectation alike in a poem that already in shape and purpose is unique in Latin literature. The poet's long-standing fascination with female figures that had first appeared in his earliest work and then accompanied him throughout his career now resurfaces in a much more complex form. Of interest to literary scholars, antiquarians, and those studying the social and political roles of ancient women, Ovid's Women of the Year offers an intriguing view of an Ovidian poem now coming into its own.

Contents:

Chapter 1 (Up)Setting Examples: Vying with Livy 19

Chapter 2 Arms and the (Wo)man: Contending with Virgil 63

Chapter 3 Under the Influence: Interacting with the Princeps 92

Chapter 4 Song of Myself: Ovid Revis(it)ing Love Elegy 135.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-203) and indexes.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472130047

9780472122172

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.5359015

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.