Ovid: Fasti Book 3

Presents a clear and detailed guide to a central book of the Fasti, Ovid's account of Rome and its calendar.

List of contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. Ovid's life and career; 2. Fasti and Metamorphoses; 3. Fasti and exile; 4. Fasti and calendars; 5. Book 3; 6. Genre; 7. Text; P. Ovidi Nasonis Fastorvm Liber Tertivs; Commentary.

About the author

S. J. Heyworth is Bowra Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Wadham College, Oxford and Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford. His work focuses on textual criticism and the transmission of Latin literature and in 2007 he published a new edition of Propertius in the Oxford Classical Texts series together with a detailed textual commentary. More recently he has published, in conjunction with James Morwood, literary and grammatical commentaries on Book III of Propertius (2011) and on Virgil's Aeneid III (2017). He is now working towards a new Oxford Classical Text for Ovid's Fasti.

Summary

A detailed guide to an important book of Ovid's Fasti, in which the poet gives an account of the Roman calendar. The commentary and introduction explore the literary tradition to which the Fasti belongs, provide clear guidance on the Latin and expound the poet's vision of Roman life, religion and myth.

Product details

• Authors: S. J. (University of Oxford) Heyworth
• Assisted by: S. J. Heyworth (Editor), S. J. (University of Oxford) Heyworth (Editor), Heyworth S. J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781107016477
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01647-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval