- Calendar, Fasts and feasts, Festivals, History and criticism
"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.
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- Author
- Ovid
- First published
- 1482
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- W. Heinemann, ltd., Casa Editrice R. Patron, typis Gul. Bowyer; impensis Benj. Tooke
- Editions
- 118
- Language
- English, German, mul, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9780140446906
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“TEMPORA cum causis Latium digesta per annum,”
Ovid, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria, three major collections of erotic poetry, the Metamorphoses a mythological hexameter poem, the Fasti, about the Roman calendar, and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of poems written in exile on the Black Sea. Ovid was also the author of several smaller pieces, the Remedia Amoris, the Medicamina Faciei Femineae, and the Ibis, a long curse-poem. He also authored a lost tragedy, Medea. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet, and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. The scholar Quintilian considered hi
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