Ovid
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
ISBN-10
1107602467
ISBN-13
9781107602465
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 16th, 2019
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
378 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.40 x 1.70 cms
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A detailed guide to an important book of Ovid's Fasti, in which the poet gives an account of the Roman calendar. The commentary and introduction explore the literary tradition to which the Fasti belongs, provide clear guidance on the Latin and expound the poet's vision of Roman life, religion and myth.
Ovid is now firmly established as a central figure in the Latin poetic canon, and his Fasti is his most complex elegy. Drafted alongside the Metamorphoses before the poet's exile, it was only published after the death of Augustus, and involves a wide range of myth, Roman history, religion, astronomy and explication of the calendar. In its aetiology and conversations with gods, it is a Latin equivalent of Callimachus' Aetia. This invaluable new commentary on a central book of the poem explores Ovid's playful inversion of genre, his witty but challenging style of Latin, his use of the elegiac couplet, intertextuality and much more. With a comprehensive introduction providing key background for students and instructors, this guide to Book 3, the first in English for nearly a century, makes use of the latest scholarly research to illuminate Ovid's wide-ranging and amusing account of Roman life.
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