Ovid's Fasti

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Latin poem didactic poem elegiac poem poetic calendar

Ovid's Fasti is a Latin elegiac poem that presents a poetic calendar of the Roman year, recounting festivals, myths, and religious customs associated with each day and month.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Ovid’s Fasti	4

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Latin poem ⓘ didactic poem ⓘ elegiac poem ⓘ poetic calendar ⓘ
associatedCalendar	Julian calendar in Rome ⓘ Roman religious calendar ⓘ
author	Ovid NERFINISHED ⓘ
contains	accounts of temple dedications ⓘ astronomical and astrological notices ⓘ etiological narratives for Roman festivals ⓘ explanations of Roman holidays ⓘ myths explaining origins of Roman rituals ⓘ references to constellations ⓘ
coversMonths	April ⓘ February NERFINISHED ⓘ January ⓘ June NERFINISHED ⓘ March ⓘ May ⓘ
dedication	Germanicus NERFINISHED ⓘ
dialogueWith	Roman gods ⓘ personified months and abstractions ⓘ
extantBooks	six ⓘ
genre	didactic poetry ⓘ etiological poetry ⓘ
historicalContext	Augustan age NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenceOn	Renaissance humanist scholarship on Roman religion ⓘ later antiquarian literature ⓘ
intendedScope	twelve books ⓘ
literaryForm	a series of dialogues with gods and personified abstractions ⓘ
metre	elegiac couplet ⓘ
narrativeVoice	first-person poet-narrator ⓘ
originalLanguage	Latin ⓘ
relatedWorkByAuthor	Amores NERFINISHED ⓘ Metamorphoses NERFINISHED ⓘ Tristia NERFINISHED ⓘ
setting	city of Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ
structure	six books ⓘ
subject	Roman calendar ⓘ Roman festivals ⓘ Roman mythology ⓘ Roman religion ⓘ
theme	Augustan religious reforms ⓘ etiology of Roman institutions ⓘ interaction between myth and Roman history ⓘ piety and ritual observance ⓘ
timePeriodDescribed	Roman Republican and early Imperial traditions ⓘ
usedAsSourceFor	Roman festival calendar ⓘ Roman myth and legend ⓘ Roman religious practices ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Faunus → mentionedIn → Ovid's Fasti ⓘ

Rhea Silvia → appearsIn → Ovid's Fasti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ovid’s Fasti

Amulius → narratedIn → Ovid's Fasti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ovid’s Fasti

Latin word meaning "royal house" or "king’s house" → mentionedIn → Ovid's Fasti ⓘ

subject surface form: Regia

this entity surface form: Ovid’s Fasti

Lemuria → describedInSource → Ovid's Fasti ⓘ

Lucrece → literarySource → Ovid's Fasti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ovid’s Fasti