Ovid, Aratus and Augustus

by Emma Gee and Emma Gee

Book Overview

The astronomical material in Ovid's Fasti has been overlooked by the current trend of scholarly interest in the poem. It is this material which is the subject of this book. The author does not study Ovid's stars using the techniques of mathematical astronomy. Rather she aims to combine the methodology of recent 'programmatic' or genre-based readings with a broad cultural perspective. Arguing that the stars serve to align the Fasti with hexameter didactic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521651875
• ISBN13: 9780521651875
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 8.7"