Fasti
(Book)
Uniform Title
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Published
London ; Penguin Books, 2000.
ISBN
0140446907, 9780140446906
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Cicero Public Library - Stacks | 871 OVI | Being transferred between libraries |
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Published
London ; Penguin Books, 2000.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
lxviii, 360 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
0140446907, 9780140446906
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page lv-lvi).
Description
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ovid, 4. B. A. o. 1. A., Boyle, A. J., & Woodard, R. D. (2000). Fasti . Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D, A. J. Boyle and Roger D. Woodard. 2000. Fasti. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D, A. J. Boyle and Roger D. Woodard. Fasti Penguin Books, 2000.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., A. J Boyle, and Roger D Woodard. Fasti Penguin Books, 2000.
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