Ovid, Aratus and Augustus: Astronomy in Ovid's FastiCambridge University Press, 28/03/2000 - 226 páginas This book explores how astronomy and power were linked in the early Roman Empire. This is achieved by careful study of the Fasti by the Roman poet Ovid--a poem about the Roman calendar which contains many references to and stories about the stars. The author does not study Ovid's stars by using the techniques of mathematical astronomy but aims to combine the methodology of recent genre-based readings with a broad cultural perspective. |
Índice
Calendrical astronomy? | 9 |
Astronomy and genre | 21 |
Verse and universe in Aratus Phaenomena | 66 |
Vesta and the architecture of the Fasti | 92 |
Roman Aratus | 126 |
The metamorphosis of time | 154 |
Epilogue | 188 |
Technical problems of Ovids astronomy | 205 |
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Aeneas Aeneid aetiological aition allusion apotheosis Aratean Aratus Archimedes astral astrology Astronomica astronomical Augustan Augustus Bömer caeli caelo caelum Caesar Callimachus Callisto Capella Capricorn catasterised catasterism Catullus celestial chapter Cicero Cleanthes comet constellations cornucopia cosmos deus didactic divine Domenicucci 1996 earth elegiac elegy epic Eratosthenes etymology Eudoxus Eulogy Fantham Fasti Galinsky Georgics Germanicus globe Greek Hardie heaven heavenly bodies Hellenistic Hesiod Hymn to Zeus Ideler Iovis Iuppiter Janus Julian calendar Jupiter Kidd literary Lock of Berenice Lucretius Maass maius Manilius Metamorphoses motifs Newlands Orion Ovid Ovid's Ovid's Fasti panegyric parapegmatists passage Phaenomena Pliny poem poet poetic poetry proem Propertius quae quam quod reference Roman Rome scholia seen Shield of Aeneas sidera Sidus Iulium signa sphaira sphere star myths Stoic sunt terra theme tradition universe Varro Vesta Vestalia Virgil Zeus γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν οἱ πάντα τε