Fasti Ovid Penguin Classics

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. Σελίδες: 432, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm