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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      21 May 1998
      ISBN:
      9781139163767
      9780521449960
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139163767
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (186 x 123 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.325kg, 304 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Literature
      Series:
      Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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    Classical Studies, Classical Literature
    Series:
    Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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    Book IV of the Fasti, Ovid's celebration of the Roman calendar and its associated legends, is the book of April and honours the festivals of Venus, Cybele, Ceres, and their cult, as well as the traditional date of the foundation of Rome and many religious and civic anniversaries. Elaine Fantham accompanies her commentary with a revised text and an extended introduction. Besides including surveys of language, style, versification, and textual transmission, the introduction looks at the shifting generic traditions of Greek and Roman elegy, and situates Ovid's composite poem in its Augustan literary and historical context. Other sections explain the recurring religious, astronomical and dynastic material of the Fasti. It has been a particular concern to relate features of Book IV to the other books of the Fasti and to Ovid's other elegiac works, and the Metamorphoses.

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    ‘ … a breakthrough in the study of classics … it will secure a place in every undergraduate curriculum of Roman history.’

    Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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