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Ovid

 
9780140446906: Fasti (Penguin Classics)
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ISBN 10: 0140446907 ISBN 13: 9780140446906
Editorial: Penguin Classics, 2000

Sinopsis

Written after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid's last major poetic work. Both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles, it weaves together tales of gods and citizens together to explore Rome's history, religious beliefs and traditions. It may also be read as a subtle but powerful political manifesto which derides Augustus' attempts to control his subjects by imposing his own mythology upon them: after celebrating the emperor as a Jupiter-on-earth, for example, Ovid deliberately juxtaposes a story showing the king of the gods as a savage rapist. Endlessly playful, this is also a work of integrity and courage, and a superb climax to the life of one of Rome's greatest writers.

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Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) was born in central Italy. He was sent to Rome where he realised that his talent lay with poetry rather than with politics. His first published work was 'Amores', a collection of short love poems. He was expelled in A.D. 8 by Emperor Augustus for an unknown reason and went to Tomis on the Black Sea, where he died.

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Editorial
Penguin Classics
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0140446907
ISBN 13 
9780140446906
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
432
Editor
Boyle Anthony J., Woodward Roger D.
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780674992795: Fasti: 253 (Loeb Classical Library)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0674992792 ISBN 13:  9780674992795
Editorial: LOEB, 1931
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