Fasti
Editorial HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780674992795
- ISBN10 0674992792
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 459
- Sammlung Loeb Classical Library #253
- Jahr der Ausgabe 1996
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Stoffeinband
Abschnitte
Zweisprachige Lateinische KlassikerFasti
Editorial HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
One of the fullest and most enjoyable sources of information on Roman myth and religion, the Fasti is both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles and genres, comic, tragic, elegiac, epic and erotic. Yet many of them contain uncomfortable political echoes. Augustus tried to control his subjects by imposing his own version of history and annual cycle of festivals on them, but Ovid - banished to the Black Sea - brilliantly debunks the official heroes and power structures. (After celebrating the emperor as a Jupiter-on-earth, for example, he deliberately juxtaposes a story showing the king of gods as a savage rapist.) Endlessly playful, this is also a work of real integrity and courage, a superb climax to the career of one of Rome's greatest writers.