Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti And the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (Mnemosyne Supplements) [Hardcover]

Molly Pasco-Pranger (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2006 | ISBN-10: 9004151303 | ISBN-13: 978-9004151307

This book considers the relationship between the "Fasti", Ovid's long poem on the Roman calendar, and the calendar itself, conceived of as consisting both in the rites and commemorations it organizes and in its graphic representation. The Fasti treats the calendar, recently revised by Caesar and Augustus, as its most important cultural model and as a quasi-literary 'intertext': the poem simultaneously reshapes and is itself shaped by the calendar. The study includes chapters on Book 4 and the rites of April, on the addition of Julio-Claudian holidays to the calendar, and on the final two books of the poem as shaped by the renaming of the months Quintilis and Sextilis for Julius Caesar and Augustus.

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About the Author

Molly Pasco-Pranger, Ph.D. (1998) in Classical Studies, University of Michigan, is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Wesleyan University. She has published articles on the Fasti and vatic poetics in Classical World (2000) and in Clio and the Poets (Brill, 2002).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 326 pages
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub (July 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004151303
• ISBN-13: 978-9004151307
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,991,105 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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