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ISBN: 0198149352 ISBN-13: 9780198149354 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $256.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1994 Annotation: Despite the dearth of contemporary witnesses for the late Augustan and early Tiberian Principates, Ovid's Fasti has remained curiously untapped as a historical source for the period. The aim of this new research is to show that the poem of some five thousand lines on the Roman calendar, written and revised in the years between AD 4 and 16, provides students of the Augustan age with a wealth of information, both about the author himself, and about his cultural and political environment. Dr Herbert-Brown investigates the purpose of the poem and examines the options available to a love-elegist who wished to adapt his talents to the service of the late Augustan regime. She illustrates how Ovid's calendar discloses important new insights into the ways in which Augustus and his family were incorporated into the ancient religion of the city of Rome. She reveals the author of the Fasti to be a unique contemporary observer of the processes which marked the transition from State cult to Ruler cult, and of the parallel evolution from Republic to Empire. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 871.01 |
| LCCN: 93014179 |
| Lexile Measure: 1520 |
| Series: Oxford Classical Monographs |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.65" W x 8.78" (0.98 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ovid's Fasti has remained curiously neglected as an historical source for the period in which it was written. This new study reveals that the poem of some five thousand lines on the Roman calendar, written and revised in the years between A.D. 4-16, provides students of the Augustan age with a wealth of information, both about the author himself, and about his cultural and political environment. In addition to revelations about the way in which Augustus and his family were incorporated into the ancient religion of the city of Rome, and details of the last decade of Augustus' life and the first years of Tiberius' rule, Herbert-Brown finds in the poem new evidence of the processes which marked the transition from the Republic to Empire. |