The astronomical material in Ovid's Fasti has been overlooked by
the current trend of scholarly interest in the poem. It is this
material which is the subject of this book. The author does not
study Ovid's stars using the techniques of mathematical astronomy.
Rather she aims to combine the methodology of recent 'programmatic'
or genre-based readings with a broad cultural perspective. Arguing
that the stars serve to align the Fasti with hexameter didactic
poetry, she first tests the assumption that the Fasti is influenced
by the Phaenomena of Aratus. A second task is to assess the value
of such writing in Augustan Rome: the Fasti and its Aratean model
may be removed from the literary-historical sphere and placed in
the political setting of the later Augustan Principate, in which
the stars had been appropriated to express the powerful connection
between the Julian family and the cosmos.
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