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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Fasti"”.
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Empedoclean Elegy: Love, Strife and the Four Elements in Ovid's Amores, Ars Amatoria and Fasti
… Ovid's use in the Amores, Ars Amatoria and Fasti of the concepts of love, strife and the four elements, which were closely identified with the philosopher-poet Empedocles in antiquity. My dissertation has two parts: in the first I demonstrate that in the Amores and Ars Amatoria Ovid connects …
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Resistance to the Rise of the Principate: An Analysis of Literary Allusions to Augustus’ Rivals
… from Ovid’s <em>Metamorphoses </em>and <em>Fasti </em>that plausibly represent familial strife in the <em>domus Augusta</em>. Two chapters on Vergil suggest that his portrayals of Camilla and Palinurus convey admiration for the endeavors of Fulvia and Sextus Pompey on behalf of those who …
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Environmental Change in Ovid's Poetry
… poetry on cosmetics, the "Metamorphoses", the "Fasti", and the "Tristia". The first chapter argues that the "Medicamina Faciei Femineae" and the "Ars Amatoria" use detailed attention to the technical procedure of cosmetics, as well as associated processes of resource extraction, to blur the …
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Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Poetry of Ovid
… that the long-debated generic tensions of the Fasti can be examined anew through the lens of reproduction. Focusing on Ovid’s treatment of Ilia and the Sabine women, I argue that Ovid uses pregnancy to embody the ‘weightiness’ of epic and bring the epic theme of genealogy into dialogue with the …
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Statius' Silvan Poetics: A Synoptic Reading of the Silvae
… festival calendar and extensively echoes Ovid’s Fasti. Chapter 4 shifts the focus from the theme of religion to the author and shows how a unified narrative is constructed around his persona, a narrative which culminates in a closural book 5 as a firm and integral part of the collection. The …
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<i>Vim Parat</i>: Patterns of Sexualized Violence, Victim-Blaming, and Sororophobia in Ovid
<p>My dissertation argues for the importance of understanding the depiction of sexualized violence and rape in the Roman poet Ovid’s extensive corpus through the modern feminist concepts of victim-blaming (blaming victims of sexual abuse for their own abuse) and sororophobia (female figures …