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Ovid Fasti: Book 2 (Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Latin)

Buch 5 von 6: Loeb Classical Library: Ovid

Ovid; Miller, John F.

 
9780929524467: Ovid Fasti: Book 2 (Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Latin)
ISBN 10: 0929524462 ISBN 13: 9780929524467
Verlag: Bryn Mawr Commentaries, 1985

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Written after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid's last major poetic work. Both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles, it weaves together tales of gods and citizens together to explore Rome's history, religious beliefs and traditions. It may also be read as a subtle but powerful political manifesto which derides Augustus' attempts to control his subjects by imposing his own mythology upon them: after celebrating the emperor as a Jupiter-on-earth, for example, Ovid deliberately juxtaposes a story showing the king of the gods as a savage rapist. Endlessly playful, this is also a work of integrity and courage, and a superb climax to the life of one of Rome's greatest writers.

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Verlag
Bryn Mawr Commentaries
Erscheinungsdatum
1985
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0929524462
ISBN 13 
9780929524467
Einband
Plastikspiralbindung
Anzahl der Seiten
96
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