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Paperback Desiring Rome: Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid's Fasti Book

ISBN: 0814256562

ISBN13: 9780814256565

Desiring Rome: Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid's Fasti

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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...

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