Desiring Rome: Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid's Fasti

by Richard J. King

Book Overview

During his last two decades (ca. 2 BCE-17 CE), Ovid composed, but never completed, his Fasti, an elegiac representation of Rome's rites and festivals: only six of twelve month-books remain. Earlier scholars have claimed that this is due either to Ovid's exile from Rome (which put him out of touch with the Roman literary world) or else his frustration over the Roman calendar's discontinuity. Drawing upon recent scholarship in gender studies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814256562
• ISBN13: 9780814256565
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"