Fasti
$38.82
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
28 October 2004
Summary
A powerfully influential work which weaves together myth and religion.
Written after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid’s last major poetic work. Both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles, it weaves together tales of gods and citizens together to explore Rome’s history, religious beliefs and traditions. It may also be read as a subtle but powerful political manifest…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140446906 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140446907 |
| Author: | Ovid, Anthony Boyle, Roger Woodard |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 28 October 2004 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Critics Review
“Fasti has burst upon the scholarly scene as a work of tremendous importance for our understanding of religion under the Principate…have provided us with what must be seen as a new commentary upon the poem…But the real value of this new Fasti, of course, lies not in its front or back material but in the lively rendition of Ovid’s own words…Boyle and Woodard have given us a fresh-sounding poem with updated diction.” —Christopher Brunelle, Boston College
About The Author
Ovid
Ovid (43 BC - AD 18) was a Roman writer who mastered a wide range of literary forms from elegies of nostalgia and love to ‘collective’ narratives relating disconnected stories, such as Metamorphoses. He died in exile by the Black Sea. Ovid’s influence has extended through Chaucer’s age to Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, and to poets such as Ted Hughes in the twentieth century.
Anthony Boyle is Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is the editor of the classical literary journal Ramus and his publications include Ancient Pastoral, The Imperial Muse and Roman Literature and Ideology.
Roger Woodard is Associate Professor of Classics at UCLA. His publications include Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages.
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