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Fasti

Name: Fasti
Brand: Penguin Books
SKU: 39588958
Price: 8.79 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Ovid
ISBN: 9780141913339

Language

English

E-book Adobe ePub DRM

Libristo code: 39588958

Publishers Penguin Books, October 2004

Written after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is... Full description

Libristo code: 39588958

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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.