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Author : R. Joy Littlewood
Release : 2006
Genre : Calendar in literature
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Book Rating : 391/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Commentary on Ovid by : R. Joy Littlewood
Download or read book A Commentary on Ovid written by R. Joy Littlewood. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Joy Littlewood
Release : 2006-06-29
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis A Commentary on Ovid's Fasti, Book 6 by : R. Joy Littlewood
Download or read book A Commentary on Ovid's Fasti, Book 6 written by R. Joy Littlewood. This book was released on 2006-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After a period of neglect, the Fasti, Ovid's elegiac poem on the Roman calendar, has been the focus of much recent scholarship. Joy Littlewood suggests that Book 6 is unified by the theme of War, so providing a framing bracket to balance the dominant theme of Peace in Book I. While January celebrates the blessings of Augustan peace, June presents a multifaceted portrait of Roman war, a uniquely Roman combination of virtus and pictas. The three goddesses who dispute the origin of the month in the Proem have associations with military success and Roman power, a distinguishing characteristic that they share in varying degrees with the goddesses whose festivals fall in June (Carna, Vesta, Mater Matuta, Fortuna, and Minerva), most of whom, like Juno of Lanuvium, are also the focus of women's cult. Throughout the month, republican military conflicts are recalled in temples vowed and anniversaries of victory and defeat in Rome's struggle for hegemony. Finally, a complex extended epilogue, which culminates in the celebration of Hercules Musarum, coalesces with familiar themes of Augustan ideology: apotheosis, dynastic eulogy, and the monuments of the Pax Augusta. These and other themes are discussed in the Introduction to the Commentary, which includes analyses of the literary and historical background of the work, Augustus' dynastic restructuring of Roman religion, as evinced in the iconography of his new monuments, Ovid's adaptations of material from Livy's Histories and Horace's Roman Odes, his narrative technique, and his expansion of the elegiac genre through the antiquarian content of the book. Fascinating literary questions are raised by the poet's audacious violation of generic boundaries, no less than by his inclusion of sound antiquarian material artfully camouflaged by literary allusion. Ovid's Fasti Book 6 offers new insights into the complex role played by religion in Roman life."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Matthew Robinson
Release : 2010-11-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 399/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Commentary on Ovid's Fasti by : Matthew Robinson
Download or read book A Commentary on Ovid's Fasti written by Matthew Robinson. This book was released on 2010-11-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fasti is one of Ovid's most complex, inventive, and remarkable works. This commentary on Book 2 - the first detailed commentary in English - guides the reader towards a fuller appreciation of the poem, through detailed analysis of its religious, historical, political, and literary background.
Author : Llewelyn Morgan
Release : 2020-09-24
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 671/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ovid: A Very Short Introduction by : Llewelyn Morgan
Download or read book Ovid: A Very Short Introduction written by Llewelyn Morgan. This book was released on 2020-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient author with aspirations to be read for eternity, but no poet of the Greco-Roman world has had a deeper or more lasting impact on subsequent literature and art than he can claim. In the present day no Greek or Roman poet is as accessible, to artists, writers, or the general reader: Ovid's voice remains a compellingly contemporary one, as modern as it seemed to his contemporaries in Augustan Rome. But Ovid was also a man of his time, his own story fatally entwined with that of the first emperor Augustus, and the poetry he wrote channels in its own way the cultural and political upheavals of the contemporary city, its public life, sexual mores, religion, and urban landscape, while also exploiting the superbly rich store of poetic convention that Greek literature and his Roman predecessors had bequeathed to him. This Very Short Introduction explains Ovid's background, social and literary, and introduces his poetry, on love, metamorphosis, Roman festivals, and his own exile, a restlessly innovative oeuvre driven by the irrepressible ingenium or wit for which he was famous. Llewelyn Morgan also explores Ovid's immense influence on later literature and art, spanning from Shakespeare to Bernini. Throughout, Ovid's poetry is revealed as enduringly scintillating, his personal story compelling, and the issues his life and poetry raise of continuing relevance and interest. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : L. P. Wilkinson
Release : 2015-02-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 302/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ovid Recalled by : L. P. Wilkinson
Download or read book Ovid Recalled written by L. P. Wilkinson. This book was released on 2015-02-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1955, this introductory text was created for the general reader or students of the classics seeking a greater understanding of Ovid.
