FASTI
calendar framework: kalends (1); nones (5/7); ides (13/15)
fasti/nefasti
elaborated with narratives
like katasterisms
elaborate patterns of thematic and verbal correspondence within and between books
e.g., story of Romulus and Remus in six different passages
Ovid as poet:
elegiac form
incongruity of form and content
influence of Greek literature
aetiologies
theme of the Golden Age
Ovid as political propagandist:
restoration of the Roman Republic under Augustus
Pax Romana
Augustan restoration of temples
emperor cult
Ovid as narrator, his reader as audience
Ovid as a scholar with didactic interests:
alternative explanations
antiquarian interests
fascination with astronomy
Ovid as active participant in worship
Ovid's Fasti Overview / Fasti
Outline / Fasti
I:
January / Fasti
II: February / Lupercalia
/
Fasti
III: March
III: March / Fasti III: Study Questions
III: Study Questions
/ Study Questions for IV / Fasti
IV: April / Fasti
V: May
V: May /
Fasti
VI: June / The
Roman Calendar
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