Fasti. Book 3 /
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Author / Creator: | Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., author. |
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Uniform title: | Fasti. Book 3. Latin (Heyworth) |
Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. ©2019 |
Description: | x, 288 pages ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English Latin |
Series: | Cambridge Greek and Latin classics Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11922355 |
Other authors / contributors: | Heyworth, S. J., editor. |
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ISBN: | 9781107016477 1107016479 9781107602465 1107602467 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-278) and index. Text in Latin; introduction and commentary in English. |
Summary: | 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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