The Lover’s Calendar (Ars amatoria 1.399–418)
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John F. Miller
Abstract
This paper explicates Ovid’s riff on lucky and unlucky days in Book 1 of the Ars amatoria, namely, the days on which the teacher of erotics advises the neophyte male lover to visit or not to visit his beloved. The discussion explores Ovid’s engagement with the principal didactic intertexts in Hesiod’s Works and Days and Virgil’s Georgics, but also the affinities with Ovid’s later Fasti and the possible reaction to Augustus’ remaking of the Roman calendar.
Abstract
This paper explicates Ovid’s riff on lucky and unlucky days in Book 1 of the Ars amatoria, namely, the days on which the teacher of erotics advises the neophyte male lover to visit or not to visit his beloved. The discussion explores Ovid’s engagement with the principal didactic intertexts in Hesiod’s Works and Days and Virgil’s Georgics, but also the affinities with Ovid’s later Fasti and the possible reaction to Augustus’ remaking of the Roman calendar.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents VII
- Format and Abbreviations XI
- Classical Enrichment: In Praise of Stephen Harrison XIII
- An Overview of this Volume XXI
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Part I: Greek and Roman Interactions
- Text and Context: A Question of Method 1
- Hellenistic Literature and Latin Literature: Towards Totality 17
- Horace at the Symposium: Talking with Maecenas and Messalla, Singing with Lyde and Phyllis 35
- Healing One’s Sorrow with the Miseries of Others: Consolation and Schadenfreude in Greek and Roman Thought 55
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Part II: Early and Late Republican Literature
- Rival Plotlines and Lovers’ Hardships in Plautus’ Asinaria 71
- Catullus, Nepos, and the Muse 85
- Catullus’ Dirty Kiss (c. 99): Roman Poetry’s #MeToo Moment 95
- Cicero’s Marius and his Marius: Life, Dreams, and Intertext 109
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Part III: Augustan Poetry
- Iambic Parody in Horace’s Epode 11: A Variation on Vergil’s Generic Games in Eclogue 10? 127
- Virgil and the Roman Republic: Continuity and Rupture 145
- Aeneas, the Penates, and Italian Nationalism 161
- Dido’s First Curse (A. 4.380–387) 173
- Turnus Donning Tragedy: The Baldric in Virgil’s Aeneid 199
- Notes on the Text and Interpretation of Horace’s Odes and Carmen Saeculare 217
- Editing Sulpicia 235
- Et mihi cedet amor: The Revenge of an Abusive Master in Ars amatoria’s Proem 247
- Amor and amicitia: Ovid’s Ars and the Ancient Discourse on Friendship 255
- The Lover’s Calendar (Ars amatoria 1.399–418) 271
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Part IV: The Ancient Novel
- Recasting Epic in Petronius’ “Dinner at Trimalchio’s” 285
- Planet Earth: The Paradoxographic Turn in Antonius Diogenes, Achilles Tatius, Iamblichus, and Longus 305
- Posthuman Style: Syzygic Affirmations in Achilles Tatius 323
- Reevaluating and Repositioning the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri 337
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Part V: Reception
- The Rape Scene in Terence’s Eunuchus and its Reception in the Joseph Plays in the 16th Century 347
- Endless Pleasure: Congreve’s Semele and her Classical Past 365
- Revolutionary Psyche 381
- Bann Valley Eclogues 397
- Crossing Bridges: Derek Mahon and a Resistant Tragic Tradition 413
- Staying Home with Hesiod: Peter Fallon’s Deeds and Their Days 423
- List of Contributors 441
- General Index 447
- Index of Manuscripts and Annotated Volumes 455
- Index of Passages 457
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents VII
- Format and Abbreviations XI
- Classical Enrichment: In Praise of Stephen Harrison XIII
- An Overview of this Volume XXI
-
Part I: Greek and Roman Interactions
- Text and Context: A Question of Method 1
- Hellenistic Literature and Latin Literature: Towards Totality 17
- Horace at the Symposium: Talking with Maecenas and Messalla, Singing with Lyde and Phyllis 35
- Healing One’s Sorrow with the Miseries of Others: Consolation and Schadenfreude in Greek and Roman Thought 55
-
Part II: Early and Late Republican Literature
- Rival Plotlines and Lovers’ Hardships in Plautus’ Asinaria 71
- Catullus, Nepos, and the Muse 85
- Catullus’ Dirty Kiss (c. 99): Roman Poetry’s #MeToo Moment 95
- Cicero’s Marius and his Marius: Life, Dreams, and Intertext 109
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Part III: Augustan Poetry
- Iambic Parody in Horace’s Epode 11: A Variation on Vergil’s Generic Games in Eclogue 10? 127
- Virgil and the Roman Republic: Continuity and Rupture 145
- Aeneas, the Penates, and Italian Nationalism 161
- Dido’s First Curse (A. 4.380–387) 173
- Turnus Donning Tragedy: The Baldric in Virgil’s Aeneid 199
- Notes on the Text and Interpretation of Horace’s Odes and Carmen Saeculare 217
- Editing Sulpicia 235
- Et mihi cedet amor: The Revenge of an Abusive Master in Ars amatoria’s Proem 247
- Amor and amicitia: Ovid’s Ars and the Ancient Discourse on Friendship 255
- The Lover’s Calendar (Ars amatoria 1.399–418) 271
-
Part IV: The Ancient Novel
- Recasting Epic in Petronius’ “Dinner at Trimalchio’s” 285
- Planet Earth: The Paradoxographic Turn in Antonius Diogenes, Achilles Tatius, Iamblichus, and Longus 305
- Posthuman Style: Syzygic Affirmations in Achilles Tatius 323
- Reevaluating and Repositioning the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri 337
-
Part V: Reception
- The Rape Scene in Terence’s Eunuchus and its Reception in the Joseph Plays in the 16th Century 347
- Endless Pleasure: Congreve’s Semele and her Classical Past 365
- Revolutionary Psyche 381
- Bann Valley Eclogues 397
- Crossing Bridges: Derek Mahon and a Resistant Tragic Tradition 413
- Staying Home with Hesiod: Peter Fallon’s Deeds and Their Days 423
- List of Contributors 441
- General Index 447
- Index of Manuscripts and Annotated Volumes 455
- Index of Passages 457