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A Commentary on Ovid's Fasti, Book 6

A Commentary on Ovid's Fasti, Book 6

Littlewood, R. Joy

Hardcover

Literary CriticismLinguisticsGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0199271348
ISBN13: 9780199271344
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 24 2006
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
After a period of neglect, Ovid's elegiac poem on the Roman calendar has been the focus of much recent scholarship. In her comprehensive and scholarly study of the final book, Joy Littlewood analyzes Ovid's account of the origins of the festivals of June, demonstrating that Book 6 is effectively a commemoration of Roman War, and elegantly provides a framing bracket to balance the opening celebration of Peace in Book 1. She explores the subtle interweaving of pietas and virtus in Roman religion and its relationship to Augustan ideology, the depth and accuracy of Ovid's antiquarianism, and his audacious expansion of generic boundaries.

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