Ovid

Name: Ovid
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521449960
Price: 6000 KES
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ISBN: 9780521449960

by Ovid

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

ISBN-10 0521449960

ISBN-13 9780521449960

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 21st, 1998

Print length 304 Pages

Weight 362 grams

Dimensions 12.70 x 20.30 x 2.50 cms

Product Classification: Poetry / poems by individual poets Poetry by individual poets

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The first English language commentary on any book of the Fasti since Frazer's five volume edition and annotated Loeb of 1929/31.

Book IV of the Fasti, Ovid's celebration of the Roman calendar and its associated legends, is the book of April and honours the festivals of Venus, Cybele, Ceres, and their cult, as well as the traditional date of the foundation of Rome and many religious and civic anniversaries. Elaine Fantham accompanies her commentary with a revised text and an extended introduction. Besides including surveys of language, style, versification, and textual transmission, the introduction looks at the shifting generic traditions of Greek and Roman elegy, and situates Ovid's composite poem in its Augustan literary and historical context. Other sections explain the recurring religious, astronomical and dynastic material of the Fasti. It has been a particular concern to relate features of Book IV to the other books of the Fasti and to Ovid's other elegiac works, and the Metamorphoses.

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