Geraldine Herbert‐Brown

Biographic Data

ID5627786
NAMEGeraldine Herbert‐Brown
GIVEN NAMESGeraldine
FAMILY NAMEHerbert‐Brown
SIGNATUREBROWN G H
AFFILIATIONSMacquarie University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX2

  • Fasti: The Poet, The Prince, and the Plebs

    Geraldine Herbert‐BrownOTHERA Companion to Ovid2009

    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Calendar Ovid's Calendar Reading the Fasti Haec Mea Militia Est Further Reading

  • Scepticism, Superstition, and the Stars: Astronomical Angst in Pliny the Elder

    Open AccessGeraldine Herbert‐Brown, Geraldine Herbert-BrownARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…2007

    Journal Article SCEPTICISM, SUPERSTITION, AND THE STARS: ASTRONOMICAL ANGST IN PLINY THE ELDER Get access Geraldine Herbert-Brown Geraldine Herbert-Brown Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_100, December 2007, Pages 113–126, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02467.x Published: 20 January 2014

  • "Ovid's "Fasti: Historical Readings at Its Bimillennium

    Matthew McGowan, Ovid Ovid et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World2006Cited by: 16

    1. martial Arts: Mars Ultor in the Forum Augustum a verbal monument 2. The Fasti as a Source for Women's Participation in the Roman Cult 3. Vaga Signa: Orion and Sirius in Ovid's Fasti 4. Varro's Three Theologies and their Influence on the Fasti 5. Ovid and the Stellar Calendar 6. Seen, Not heard: feminea lingua in Ovid's Fasti and the critical gaze 7. Representing the Great Mother to Augustus 8. Imperii Pignora Certa: the role of Numa in Ovid's …

  • Jerome's dates for Gaius Lucilius, satyrarum scriptor

    Open AccessGeraldine Herbert‐Brown, Geraldine Herbert-BrownARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1999References: 6

    The Chronicle of Jerome states that Gaius Lucilius was born in 148 B.C. and died in 103 B.C. in his forty-sixth year. The Oxford Classical Dictionary (1996) says that Gaius Lucilius was probably born in 180 B.C. and died in 102/1 B.C

  • Omissions in the Fasti

    Geraldine Herbert‐Brown, Geraldine Herbert-BrownCHAPTEROvid and the Fasti1994

    Subject Ancient Greek History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online

  • Livia

    Geraldine Herbert‐Brown, Geraldine Herbert-BrownCHAPTEROvid and the Fasti1994

    Before the Fasti Livia had hardly figured in Augustan poetry. Her name is not invoked at all in the extant works of Ovid’s predecessors, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, or Tibullus, although it is true that Horace had once made a move in that direction. In Ode 3. 14. 1-10 he invokes the ‘mulier’ and ‘soror’ of Caesar as public sacrificial celebrants to the gods after the victorious return of Augustus from Spain (24 BC).

  • Germanicus

    Geraldine Herbert‐Brown, Geraldine Herbert-BrownCHAPTEROvid and the Fasti1994

    After the death of Augustus in ad 14, Ovid rededicated the Fasti and revised sections within it to incorporate the new dedicatee. That rededication was not, as might be expected, to the successor of Augustus, the new Princeps and Pontifex Maximus, but to Germanicus Caesar, nephew and adopted son of the new ruler. Yet Ovid’s reworking of the poem to honour his new dedicatee did not last long. Except for a brief outburst in the proem to book 4 (79-…

  • Why Fasti

    Geraldine Herbert‐Brown, Geraldine Herbert-BrownCHAPTEROvid and the Fasti1994

    In those years Ovid was at the height of artistic maturity, at the peak of a successful career, keenly desirous of maintaining his claim to immortal fame through his art (Met. 15. 875-9). It is difficult to believe that he would choose something as problematic and unwieldy as the Roman calendar to set to verse unless extraneous pressure were being applied. For this reason it is more feasible that Ovid’s decision to produce a major work as a tribu…

  • Epilogue

    Geraldine Herbert‐Brown, Geraldine Herbert-BrownOTHEROvid and the Fasti1994

    Subject Ancient Greek History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online

  • Julius Caesar

    Geraldine Herbert‐Brown, Geraldine Herbert-BrownCHAPTEROvid and the Fasti1994

    Ovid’s portrayal of Julius Caesar in the Fasti will be dealt with against the background of controversy recently raised about the posthumous role assigned Caesar in the reign of his heir. Critics have long noted the low profile accorded Julius by Augustan poets, and have long suspected that the initiative for this proceeded directly from Augustus himself. The critic lending greatest currency to this view is Sir Ronald Syme, who repeatedly stated …

  • Augustus

    Geraldine Herbert‐Brown, Geraldine Herbert-BrownCHAPTEROvid and the Fasti1994

    The present study of Augustus begins with book 2 of the Fasti. After the death of the Princeps in ad 14, Ovid redesigned the proem and Julian entries to book 1 for the purpose of incorporating into the calendar the poem’s new dedicatee, Caesar Germanicus. Ovid’s Augustan anniversaries for January, written in exile, contain themes and ideas more reflective of the early Principate of Tiberius, so these have been reserved for study in the section on…

  • Ovid and the Fasti: An Historical Study

    Geraldine Herbert‐Brown, Geraldine Herbert-BrownBOOKOvid and the Fasti1994Cited by: 21

    Despite the death of contemporary witnesses for the late Augustan and early Tiberian Principates, Ovid's Fasti has remained curiously neglected as an 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 4-16, provides students of the Augustan age with a wealth of information, both about the author himself, and about hi…