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Ovid's women of the year : narratives of Roman identity in the Fasti / Angeline Chiu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chiu, Angeline, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
- 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.
- Contents:
- (Up)setting examples: vying with Livy
- Arms and the (wo)man: contending with Virgil
- Under the influence: interacting with the princeps
- Song of myself: Ovid revis(it)ing love elegy
- Conclusion: ipse leges: the calendar as reader's choice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-203) and indexes.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472122172
- 0472122177
- OCLC:
- 957619014
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.5359015
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