Janus And Vesta
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Author | : Carole Elizabeth Newlands |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801430800 |
Ovid's Fasti, unlike his Metamorphoses, is anchored in Rome: religion, history and legend, monuments, and character. The poem interprets the Augustan period not as a golden age of peace and prosperity, Carole E. Newlands asserts, but as an age of experimentation, negotiation, compromise, and unresolved tensions. Newlands maintains that, despite the Fasti's basic adherence to the format of the calendar, the text is carefully constructed to reflect the tensions within its subject: the new Roman year. Ovid plays with the calendar. Through the alteration or omission of significant dates, through skilled juxtapositions, through multiple narrators and the development of an increasingly unreliable authorial persona, Ovid opens to a critical and often humorous scrutiny the political ideology of the calendar. By adding astronomical observations and aetiological explanations for certain constellations, Newlands says, Ovid introduced the richly allusive world of Greek mythology to the calendar. Newlands restores the poem to a position of importance, one displaying Ovid's wit and intellect at its best. The incompleteness of the Fasti, she adds, is a comment on the discord that characterized Augustus' later years and led to enforced silences.
Author | : Karen K. Hersch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2010-05-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521124271 |
This is the first book-length examination of Roman wedding ritual.
Author | : Emma Gee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2000-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521651875 |
The astronomical material in Ovid's Fasti has been overlooked. It is this material which is the subject of this book.
Author | : Vensus A. George |
Publisher | : CRVP |
Total Pages | : 665 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : 1565182480 |
Author | : Benchara Branford |
Publisher | : London, Chatto & Windus |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Molly Lindner |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2015-08-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0472118951 |
Examines portraits of Rome's Vestal Virgins as artistic documents and political vehicles
Author | : David S. Noss |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1169 |
Release | : 2017-12-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351578421 |
A History of the World's Religions bridges the interval between the founding of religions and their present state, and gives students an accurate look at the religions of the world by including descriptive and interpretive details from original source materials. Refined by over forty years of dialogue and correspondence with religious experts and practitioners around the world, A History of the World's Religions is widely regarded as the hallmark of scholarship, fairness, and accuracy in its field. It is also the most thorough yet manageable history of world religion available in a single volume. A History of the World’s Religions examines the following topics: Some Primal and Bygone Religions The Religions of South Asia The Religions of East Asia The Religions of the Middle East This fourteenth edition is fully updated throughout with new images and inset text boxes to help guide students and instructors. Complete with figures, timelines and maps, this is an ideal resource for anyone wanting an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the world’s religions.
Author | : James Hastings |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 942 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alessandro Barchiesi |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520202238 |
In this fresh assessment of Ovid's fascinating poem Fasti, Alessandro Barchiesi provides a new vision of the interaction between Ovid and the renowned ruler Augustus. Fasti, a poem about the holidays and feast days of the Roman calendar, was written while Ovid was in Rome and revised while he was in exile on the barbarian frontier, banished by Augustus from the cultured society of Rome. Ovid's work in exile evinces complicated motives; he addresses Augustus and begs him to lift the despised exile, but at the same time covertly critiques Augustus's "New Rome." Although recent scholarship has concentrated on the oppositions between poet and ruler revealed in Ovid's work, Barchiesi's analysis transcends the opposition of pro-Augustan or anti-Augustan readings. In a lively, vigorous narrative that relies on close textual analysis, Barchiesi underscores the important poetic choices as well as the political considerations made by Ovid in Fasti. Ultimately, his analysis leads us to a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between patrons and poets. Both scholars and general readers will find a newly meaningful and interesting Ovid in these pages. Translated with revisions from Il poeta e il principe: Ovido e il discorso Augusteo (1994).
Author | : Juvénal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |