TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Ambiguity and religion in Ovid's Fasti : religious innovation and the imperial family
T2  - Mnemosyne
T2  - Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava
A1  - Erker, Darja Šterbenc, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
LA  - lat
PP  - Leiden ; Boston
PB  - Brill
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5642192
AB  - "Ovid's Fasti offers multifocal views of Augustan religion to convey ambivalences, inconsistencies and paradoxes in the imperial family's religious agenda. Darja Sterbenc Erker explores Ovid's irreverent and ambiguous presentations of calendrical aeitiologies, deifications and imperial gods that humorously call to mind Arachne's tapestry depicting faulty gods and that stand in sharp contrast to the poet's more serious discussions of the values he cherishes, such as freedom and poetic immortality. Especially in the exilic revisions of the poem, Ovid emphasises the motif of bestowing divine honours upon mortals through poetry. For him, the stars in the heavens do not represent deified statesmen but immortal authors"--
SN  - 978-90-04-52703-4 kovakantinen
SN  - 9004527036 kovakantinen
KW  - Ovid, : 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. : Fasti
KW  - Augustus, : Emperor of Rome, : 63 B.C.-14 A.D. : In literature
KW  - Ambiguity in literature
KW  - Religion in literature
KW  - Apotheosis in literature
ER  -