About this title: Ovid's Fasti, begun in or soon after AD I, was to have celebrated the calendar and associated legends of the Roman year, but probably had reached no further than June before his exile in AD 8. Book IV, the book of April, honours the festivals of Venus, Cybele, Ceres and their cult, as well as the traditional date of the foundation of Rome and many religious and civic anniversaries. Elaine Fantham accompanies her commentary with a revised text and a deliberately extended introduction. Besides including surveys of language, style, versification and textual transmission, the introduction looks ...
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Edition: 2nd ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780674992795ISBN:0674992792
Description: Very Good, Good. Xxx11, 459 pp. Part of Loeb Classical Library, translated by Sir James G. Frazer, rev. by G.P. Goold. Spine slightly cocked, bit of wear to cloth at tips and spine ends, small owner's name inked on flyleaf, at least 3 pages underlined. Dj worn, rubbed and scuffed, spine sunned, price sticker on rear panel, small chips or tears at fold ends. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press / William Heinemann,
Date Published: 1976.
ISBN-13:9780674992795ISBN:0674992792
Description: Owner's inked name/date with small amount of pencil & ink underlining and marginalia, else very good plus condition with binding tight without dust jacket. 461pp. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press/Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780674992795ISBN:0674992792
Description: Near Fine in Very Good Plus jacket. Minor wear; well bound very clean copy. Interior also clean and unmarked. Light wear to dust jacket. read more
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