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Record Nr.

UNISA996237236903316

Autore

Pasco-Pranger Molly

Titolo

Founding the year [[electronic resource] ] : Ovid's Fasti and the poetics of the Roman calendar / / by Molly Pasco-Pranger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2006

ISBN

1-281-39921-3

9786611399214

90-474-0959-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

Mnemosyne supplements, , 0169-8958 ; ; c. 276

Disciplina

871/.01

Soggetti

Didactic poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Literature and society - Rome

Fasts and feasts in literature

Calendar in literature

Time in literature

Rome In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliograpical references (p. [297]-308) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE POLITICS OF TEMPORA -- PRAECEPTOR ANNI: THE CALENDRICAL MODEL AND THE FASTI’S DIDACTIC PROJECT -- VENUS’ MONTH -- QUOSCUMQUE SACRIS ADDIDIT ILLE DIES: THE JULIO-CLAUDIAN HOLIDAYS -- LOOKING FORWARD TO JULY -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX LOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE by H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , I.J.F. de Jong and P.H. Schrijvers -- PLATES.

Sommario/riassunto

This book considers the relationship between the Fasti , Ovid's long poem on the Roman calendar, and the calendar itself, conceived of as consisting both in the rites and commemorations it organizes and in its graphic representation. The Fasti treats the calendar, recently revised by Caesar and Augustus, as its most important cultural model and as a quasi-literary 'intertext': the poem simultaneously reshapes and is itself shaped by the calendar. The study includes chapters on Book 4 and the rites of April, on the addition of Julio-Claudian holidays to the calendar, and on the final two books of the poem as shaped by the renaming of



the months Quintilis and Sextilis for Julius Caesar and Augustus.