Ovid, Aratus and Augustus : astronomy in Ovid's Fasti

Ovid, Aratus and Augustus : astronomy in Ovid's Fasti / Emma Gee.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gee, Emma, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Cambridge classical studies
Subjects:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Fasti.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Astronomy.
Aratus, > Solensis. > Phaenomena.
Aratus, > Solensis > Influence.
Didactic poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Astronomy, Ancient, in literature.
Politics and literature > Rome.
Fasts and feasts in literature.
Calendar in literature.
Rome > History > Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D. > Historiography.
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Table of Contents:
  • Calendrical astronomy?
  • Astronomy and genre
  • Verse and universe in Aratus' Phaenomena
  • Vesta and the architecture of the Fasti
  • Roman Aratus
  • The metamorphosis of time.

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