Ovid

Ovid is now firmly established as a central figure in the Latin poetic canon and his Fasti is his most complex elegy. Drafted alongside the Metamorphoses before the poet''s exile it was only published after the death of Augustus and involves a wide range of myth Roman history religion astronomy and explication of the calendar. In its aetiology and conversations with gods it is a Latin equivalent of Callimachus'' Aetia. This invaluable new commentary on a central book of the poem explores Ovid''s playful inversion of genre his witty but challenging style of Latin his use of the elegiac couplet intertextuality and much more. With a comprehensive introduction providing key background for students and instructors this guide to Book 3 the first in English for nearly a century makes use of the latest scholarly research to illuminate Ovid''s wide-ranging and amusing account of Roman life.