Book IV of the Fasti, Ovid's celebration of the Roman calendar and
its associated legends, is the book of April and honours the
festivals of Venus, Cybele, Ceres, and their cult, as well as the
traditional date of the foundation of Rome and many religious and
civic anniversaries. Elaine Fantham accompanies her commentary with
a revised text and an extended introduction. Besides including
surveys of language, style, versification, and textual
transmission, the introduction looks at the shifting generic
traditions of Greek and Roman elegy, and situates Ovid's composite
poem in its Augustan literary and historical context. Other
sections explain the recurring religious, astronomical and dynastic
material of the Fasti. It has been a particular concern to relate
features of Book IV to the other books of the Fasti and to Ovid's
other elegiac works, and the Metamorphoses.
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