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Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti
Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family
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Darja Šterbenc Erker
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
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Ovid’s Fasti offers multifocal views of Augustan religion to convey ambivalences, inconsistencies and paradoxes in the imperial family’s religious agenda. Darja Šterbenc Erker explores Ovid's irreverent and ambiguous presentations of calendrical aeitiologies, deifications and imperial gods that humorously call to mind Arachne’s tapestry depicting faulty gods and that stand in sharp contrast to the poet’s more serious discussions of the values he cherishes, such as freedom and poetic immortality. Especially in the exilic revisions of the poem, Ovid emphasises the motif of bestowing divine honours upon mortals through poetry. For him, the stars in the heavens do not represent deified statesmen but immortal authors.
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Darja Šterbenc Erker, Ph.D. (2001), Habil. (2007) is Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow at the Humboldt University Berlin and at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). She has published numerous articles, three edited volumes and two monographs, including Religiöse Rollen römischer Frauen in “griechischen” Ritualen, Steiner, 2013.
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eBook published on:
March 20, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9789004527041
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Main content:
297
eBook ISBN:
9789004527041
Keywords for this book
Augustus; Genius; Livia; Germanicus; aetiologies; humour; peace; concord; deification; stars; Romulus; Servius Tullius; Lares; Vesta
Audience(s) for this book
The book is of immediate interest for specialists and students in Classics, Ancient History and History of Ancient Religions and the academic libraries for these subject areas.
