Enlargement of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Manchester, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-337) and index.

Preliminary Material / Steven J. Green -- EXPECTATION AND RE-EVALUATION IN OVID, FASTI 1 / Steven J. Green -- TEXTUAL AND TEMPORAL IN FASTI 1: EXILE, REVISION AND THE READER / Steven J. Green -- COMMENTARY / Steven J. Green -- LIST OF REFERENCES / Steven J. Green -- LATIN AND GREEK WORDS AND PHRASES / Steven J. Green -- GENERAL / Steven J. Green -- SIGNIFICANT PASSAGES REFERRED TO IN OVID / Steven J. Green -- SIGNIFICANT PASSAGES REFERRED TO IN OTHER AUTHORS / Steven J. Green -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE / H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , D.M. Schenkeveld , P.H. Schrijvers and S.R. Slings.

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This commentary provides a detailed analysis of the first book of Ovid's Fasti , a complex poem which takes as its central framework the Roman calendar in the late Augustan/early Tiberian period and purports to deal with its religious festivals and their origins. Book 1 covers the month of January, and has proven to be particularly challenging to readers in light of the apparent revision/reworking of the text undertaken by the poet whilst in exile. This commentary - the most extensive yet on any single book of the poem - locates the text of Book 1 firmly in its literary, historical and socio-political contexts and seeks both to incorporate and build on the recent scholarship on the poem. In light of the special nature of Book 1, the commentary is prefaced by two introductory sections, the second of which tackles head-on the problems (and dynamics) of post-exilic reworking of the text.