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Founding the Year : Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Mnemosyne, Supplements SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (345 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789047409595
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman CalendarLOC classification:
  • PA6519.F9P37 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- FOUNDING THE YEAR: OVID'S FASTI AND THE POETICS OF THE ROMAN CALENDAR -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The politics of tempora -- The date(s) of composition of the Fasti and the 'political context' -- Power and the calendar -- Multa exempla maiorum exolescentia: recuperating the past -- Exempla imitanda posteris: providing for the future -- Calendrical revisions and social control -- Chapter Two. Praeceptor anni: The calendrical model and the Fasti 's didactic project -- Poetry and the calendar-builders -- Reading the calendar -- Alter ut hic mensis, sic liber alter eat -- Calendrical order, month pairs, and meaning -- Series rerum -- Chapter Three. Venus' month -- "The poet and the month are yours . . ." -- 'Alma, fave', dixi 'geminorum mater Amorum' -- Almae matres -- Venus Verticordia and Fortuna Virilis -- Venus Verticordia and Venus Erycina -- Venus Verticordia and Magna Mater -- Magna Mater and Ceres -- Flora -- Chapter Four. Quoscumque sacris addidit ille dies: The Julio-Claudian holidays -- Natalis Augusti -- Actian Apollo and the Augustalia -- Domus Augusta, Pax Augusta: January 11-30 -- Praeteriturus eram . . . : The death of Caesar -- Aufer, Vesta, diem: Resettling Vesta on April 28 -- Chapter Five. Looking forward to July -- Whose majesty? (5.11-52) -- "The older god fell . . ." -- Concord comes at last (6.91-96) -- Starting with a glance back (the kalends of May) -- Aiming at kingship -- The young avenger -- Resurrecting the dead -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index Locorum -- General Index -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE.
Summary: This book gives serious consideration to the relationship between Ovid's Fasti and the Roman calendar. The poem treats the calendar, recently revised by Caesar and Augustus, as its most important cultural model and as a quasi-literary 'intertext.'.
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Intro -- FOUNDING THE YEAR: OVID'S FASTI AND THE POETICS OF THE ROMAN CALENDAR -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The politics of tempora -- The date(s) of composition of the Fasti and the 'political context' -- Power and the calendar -- Multa exempla maiorum exolescentia: recuperating the past -- Exempla imitanda posteris: providing for the future -- Calendrical revisions and social control -- Chapter Two. Praeceptor anni: The calendrical model and the Fasti 's didactic project -- Poetry and the calendar-builders -- Reading the calendar -- Alter ut hic mensis, sic liber alter eat -- Calendrical order, month pairs, and meaning -- Series rerum -- Chapter Three. Venus' month -- "The poet and the month are yours . . ." -- 'Alma, fave', dixi 'geminorum mater Amorum' -- Almae matres -- Venus Verticordia and Fortuna Virilis -- Venus Verticordia and Venus Erycina -- Venus Verticordia and Magna Mater -- Magna Mater and Ceres -- Flora -- Chapter Four. Quoscumque sacris addidit ille dies: The Julio-Claudian holidays -- Natalis Augusti -- Actian Apollo and the Augustalia -- Domus Augusta, Pax Augusta: January 11-30 -- Praeteriturus eram . . . : The death of Caesar -- Aufer, Vesta, diem: Resettling Vesta on April 28 -- Chapter Five. Looking forward to July -- Whose majesty? (5.11-52) -- "The older god fell . . ." -- Concord comes at last (6.91-96) -- Starting with a glance back (the kalends of May) -- Aiming at kingship -- The young avenger -- Resurrecting the dead -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index Locorum -- General Index -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE.

This book gives serious consideration to the relationship between Ovid's Fasti and the Roman calendar. The poem treats the calendar, recently revised by Caesar and Augustus, as its most important cultural model and as a quasi-literary 'intertext.'.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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