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"After a period of neglect, the Fasti, Ovid's elegiac poem on the Roman calendar, has been the focus of much recent scholarship. Joy Littlewood suggests that Book 6 is unified by the theme of War, so providing a framing bracket to balance the dominant theme of Peace in Book I. While January celebrates the blessings of Augustan peace, June presents a multifaceted portrait of Roman war, a uniquely Roman combination of virtus and pictas. The three goddesses who dispute the origin of the month in th
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- Author
- R Joy Littlewood; Ovid
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199271344
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Language Learning, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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