Fasti by Ovid
"Fasti" by Ovid is a six-book Latin poem written in AD 8. Through the voice of a poet-prophet, Ovid presents an ambitious calendar of Roman religion, documenting festivals, rituals, and their mythological origins for the first six months of the year. Left incomplete when the poet was exiled, this elegiac work blends divine interviews, multiple origin stories, and astronomical observations to preserve ancient religious traditions. Drawing on Greek and Roman poetic traditions,
it offers a unique window into Roman religious practices and beliefs. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Ovid, 44 BCE-18? |
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| Annotator | Keightley, Thomas, 1789-1872 |
| Title | Fasti |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasti_(poem) |
| Credits | Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Tapio Riikonen, Marc D'Hooghe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 67.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | Latin |
| LoC Class | PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Didactic poetry, Latin |
| Subject | Fasts and feasts -- Poetry |
| Subject | Calendar -- Poetry |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 8738 |
| Release Date | Aug 1, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 12, 2014 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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