Playing with Time: Ovid and the FastiCornell University Press, 1995 - 254 Seiten 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. |
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Stellar Connections | 27 |
Narrator and Interlocutors in Ovids Fasti | 51 |
The Temple of Mars Ultor | 87 |
Priapus Revisited | 124 |
The Silence of Lucretia | 146 |
Portraits of the Artist | 175 |
The Ending of Ovids Fasti | 209 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Achilles Aesculapius Aetia aetiological allusion Amatoria Amores Anna Perenna Apollo apotheosis argues Arion arma artist associated astronomical Augustan Augustus Bömer on F Brutus Caesar calendar Callimachus Carmentis celebration Chapter chastity Chiron Concordia constellation cult deities described didactic divine elegiac elegiac poet elegy end of Book Ennius epic erotic exile Fabius Fantham Fasti Fasti Ovid female festival Flora Forum Augustum genre Germanicus goddess Hellenistic Hercules Musarum honor imperial Janus Julius Juno Jupiter literary Livy Livy's Lupercalia Maiestas Mars Ultor Marsyas Mater Matuta Mercury Metamorphoses military Moreover Muses narrative narrator Orion Ovid Ovid's Ovid's Fasti Ovid's poem passage peace Philomela pietas play poem's poetic poetry political praise Priapus Procne proem Propertius rape reference role Roman Rome Rome's Romulus Sextus Tarquinius sexual speech star myths story of Lucretia suggests temple of Hercules temple of Mars tempora Tereus themes Tiberius tion tradition University Press Venus Vergil Vesta voice word
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