Ovid's women of the year : narratives of Roman identity in the Fasti

Ovid's women of the year : narratives of Roman identity in the Fasti / Angeline Chiu.

Ovid, best known for the epic Metamorphoses, offers in his Fasti the self-proclaimed goal of exploring and explicating the Roman calendar. Published circa 14 CE, the Fasti presents claims of aetiological, astronomical, and even antiquarian interests, but more importantly the poem highlights an extra...

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Main Author: Chiu, Angeline, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Fasti.
Women in literature.
Table of 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.

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