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Fasti

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4191-333-9

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141913339

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 432

Fecha de publicación: 2004-10-28

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Fasti

Editorial: penguin_classics

ISBN: 978-01-4044-690-6

ISBN sin guiones: 9780140446906

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 432

Fecha de publicación: 2004-10-28

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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Fasti

Ovid

Primera publicación: 2004-10-28

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.