Author: Benchara Branford
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Published: 2016-08-28
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781372063374
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Publisher:
Published: 2015-06-29
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781330477557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Janus and Vesta: A Study of the World Crisis and After The present study has been thought out and written at intervals during the last five and twenty years, under the impression, faint at first but steadily increasing in strength, that the world was passing through a crisis of which the great war has been but the unhappy culmination. Difficult as is the matter of which it treats, the author hopes that the work to which he has devoted so many years will merit thoughtful public attention, and come to exercise some modest measure of useful influence in the gradual regeneration of culture and civilisation that will be needed when society passes from its crisis into the healing stage of its lysis. In matter so complex in its nature the author would venture in all modesty to offer the advice of Lagrange: Read backwards and forwards, in the belief that it will repay careful study. To this end each chapter has been made a whole in itself as well as a part of a larger whole. The indulgence of the critical reader is asked for the author's frequent use of the french custom of the omission of capitals: the aesthetic needs of the eye and avoidance of ambiguity have been deliberately permitted to override the demands of convention and consistency. During a recent long and serious illness the author has become greatly indebted to his esteemed friend Professor Nunn, M.A., D.Sc., of London University for correction and criticism of proof sheets, and to his brother, the Rev. John Branford, M.A., for the Index. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author: Carole Elizabeth Newlands
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780801430800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ovid's Fasti, unlike his Metamorphoses, is anchored in Rome: religion, history and legend, monuments, and character. The poem interprets the Augustan period not as a golden age of peace and prosperity, Carole E. Newlands asserts, but as an age of experimentation, negotiation, compromise, and unresolved tensions. Newlands maintains that, despite the Fasti's basic adherence to the format of the calendar, the text is carefully constructed to reflect the tensions within its subject: the new Roman year. Ovid plays with the calendar. Through the alteration or omission of significant dates, through skilled juxtapositions, through multiple narrators and the development of an increasingly unreliable authorial persona, Ovid opens to a critical and often humorous scrutiny the political ideology of the calendar. By adding astronomical observations and aetiological explanations for certain constellations, Newlands says, Ovid introduced the richly allusive world of Greek mythology to the calendar. Newlands restores the poem to a position of importance, one displaying Ovid's wit and intellect at its best. The incompleteness of the Fasti, she adds, is a comment on the discord that characterized Augustus' later years and led to enforced silences.
Author: Karen K. Hersch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-05-24
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0521124271
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Author: Emma Gee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-03-28
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521651875
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The astronomical material in Ovid's Fasti has been overlooked. It is this material which is the subject of this book.
Author: Vensus A. George
Publisher: CRVP
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 665
ISBN-13: 1565182480
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alessandro Barchiesi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780520202238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this fresh assessment of Ovid's fascinating poem Fasti, Alessandro Barchiesi provides a new vision of the interaction between Ovid and the renowned ruler Augustus. Fasti, a poem about the holidays and feast days of the Roman calendar, was written while Ovid was in Rome and revised while he was in exile on the barbarian frontier, banished by Augustus from the cultured society of Rome. Ovid's work in exile evinces complicated motives; he addresses Augustus and begs him to lift the despised exile, but at the same time covertly critiques Augustus's "New Rome." Although recent scholarship has concentrated on the oppositions between poet and ruler revealed in Ovid's work, Barchiesi's analysis transcends the opposition of pro-Augustan or anti-Augustan readings. In a lively, vigorous narrative that relies on close textual analysis, Barchiesi underscores the important poetic choices as well as the political considerations made by Ovid in Fasti. Ultimately, his analysis leads us to a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between patrons and poets. Both scholars and general readers will find a newly meaningful and interesting Ovid in these pages. Translated with revisions from Il poeta e il principe: Ovido e il discorso Augusteo (1994).
Author: Benchara Branford
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
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