![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. In 1736 Maria Theresa Voigtin, widow of the printer to the University of Vienna, issued an edition of Fasti Austriae, a highly original poem which purported to. 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. Starting with a glance back (the kalends of May).Aufer, Vesta, diem: Resettling Vesta on April 28.Domus Augusta, Pax Augusta: January 11-30.QUOSCUMQUE SACRIS ADDIDIT ILLE DIES: THE JULIO-CLAUDIAN HOLIDAYS."Alma, fave, " dixi "geminorum mater Amorum".Alter ut hic mensis, sic liber alter eat.PRAECEPTOR ANNI: THE CALENDRICAL MODEL AND THE FASTI'S DIDACTIC PROJECT.Calendrical revisions and social control.Exempla imitanda posteris: providing for the future.Multa exempla maiorum exolescentia: recuperating the past.The date(s) of composition of the Fasti and the "political context".Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and indexes. ![]()
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