Fasti

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Fasti is a poetic work by the Roman poet Ovid that explores the Roman calendar, its festivals, and associated myths in elegiac verse.

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instanceOf Latin poem
didactic poem
poetic work
approximateDateOfComposition c. 8 CE
author Ovid
countryOfOrigin Roman Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Rome
coversMonth April
February
January
June
March
May
dateOfComposition early 1st century CE
featuresDeity Ceres
Diana
Janus
Juno
Jupiter
Mars
Venus
Vesta
featuresEmperor Augustus
Tiberius
genre elegiac poetry
intendedNumberOfBooks 12
isIncomplete true
literaryForm poetry
literaryInfluence influenced later antiquarian and mythographic literature
literaryPeriod Augustan literature
literaryTechnique aetiological narrative
etiological explanation of rituals
mythological exempla
mainTheme interaction between myth and calendar
origins of Roman festivals and rites
metre elegiac couplet
numberOfBooks 6
originalLanguage Latin
placeInAuthorCorpus late work of Ovid
relatedWorkBySameAuthor Epistulae ex Ponto
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
surface form: Metamorphoses

Tristia
structure book
subject Roman calendar
Roman festivals
Roman religion
surface form: Roman mythology

Roman religion
etiological myths
timePeriodDescribed Roman Republican and early Imperial religious calendar
titleLanguage Latin
titleMeaning The Festivals
workFocus day-by-day explanation of Roman religious observances

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Augustan age hasMainWork Fasti