Ovid's Fasti
Politics, History, and Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20080802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elaine Fantham (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Pages | 197-233 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Brill's Companion to Ovid (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789047400950_008 |
| OpenAlex | W912495308 |
| ISBN | 9789047400950 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The political affirmation of Julian anniversaries is equally prominent in Ovid's Fasti , and adds a diplomatic or panegyric element to his literary motivation in composing his Roman counterpart to the Aetia of Callimachus. The author stresses the relationship between annual cyclic time, the ostensible determinant of Ovid's calendar poem, and linear historical time. Hinds, Boyle, and other recent students of Fasti have offered eloquent arguments hinging on Ovid's disrespect for Rome's first king, but no one has disputed his respectful attention to Numa, his successor. Numa is prominent in Fasti , as Hinds has shown, for his promotion of a peaceful settled life, and his religious reforms. Ovid began to remodel the poem when he returned to it on Augustus's death. This sampling of Ovid's treatment of politics, history, and religion in Fasti may in the end suggest a further dimension to religion in Roman literature. Keywords: Aetia ; Augustus; Boyle; Callimachus; Fasti ; Hinds; Numa; Ovid
Art · Literature · Panegyric · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Successor cardinal · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |