Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family

Ovid’s Fasti offers multifocal views of Augustan religion to convey ambivalences, inconsistencies and paradoxes in the imperial family’s religious agenda. Darja Šterbenc Erker explores Ovid's irreverent and ambiguous presentations of calendrical aeitiologies, deifications and imperial gods that...

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Subtitles:Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family
Main Author: Erker, Darja Šterbenc (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2023
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Series/Journal:Mnemosyne, Supplements 466
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023
Further subjects:B Greek & Latin Literature
B Classical Studies
B Religion
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505 8 0 |t Inventing Ambivalent Aetiologies of the Concordia Augusta -- From Antiquarian to Elegiac Inquiry into the Past Religious Traditions of Rome -- The Goddess Concordia: Past and Present -- Livia and Concordia -- Elegiac Play with Political and Familial Concordia -- The Etymology of June and Ovid as an Impartial Judge -- Conclusion: Ovid’s Invention of Concordia Augusta Aetiologies -- The Pax Augusta -- From Marble, Painted or Book Calendar to Ovid’s Fasti -- Intermedial Shifts: From Ara Pacis Augustae to Ovid’s Aetiological Elegy -- The Pax Augusta Born out of Imperial Triumphs -- From Augustus’ Closing the Doors of Janus’ Temple to Ovid’s Janus -- Ovidian Conception of Peace -- Conclusion: Contesting the Pax Augusta -- Part 2 Deification -- Catasterisms and Deifications -- The Transmission of Hellenistic Deification from Alexandria to Rome -- Augustus and Deification -- Germanicus as Divine Protector and Other Deifications in Ovid’s Fasti -- Germanicus as a Fellow Poet -- Germanicus and the Immortality of the Poets -- Conclusion: Poetic Deifications -- Romulus’ Apotheosis as Model for Julius Caesar’s and Augustus’ Deification -- Romulus’ Calendar Failure -- Apotheosis of Romulus -- Do Divine Origins Pave the Way for the Apotheosis? -- Playing with Deifications -- Cicero on Julius Proculus’ Vision of the Epiphany of Romulus -- Livy’s Account of Romulus’ Epiphany -- Dionysius’ Romulus-Quirinus: Addressee of a Hero Cult -- Ovid’s Ambivalent Representation of Romulus’ Epiphany as the God Quirinus -- Deifications and Stultorum Festa -- Untrustworthy Narrator and Imperial Deifications -- Reception of the Ovidian Narrator in Early Imperial Literature -- The Aetiology of Servius Tullius and Fortuna -- Elegiac Cultural Memories of Fortuna’s Temple -- Augustus’ Divinity and His Divine Ancestors -- Fortuna and Servius Tullius -- Conspiring for the Throne -- Conclusion: Ovid’s Competing Cultural Memories of Rome -- Part 3 Ambiguities in Augustus’ Religion -- Augustus’ Religious Self-Fashioning -- Augustus’ Attempts to Approach the Sphere of Gods and Good Rulers -- Augustus’ Accumulation of Priesthoods -- Augustus’ Restoration of Roman Religion -- Augustus’ Honorific Titles -- Conclusion: Augustus’ Divine Charisma -- Ambiguity of Augustus’ Religious Innovations -- Augustus and the Goddess Vesta -- The Lares and Genius Augusti -- Innovations within the Lares Compitales Cult -- Conclusion: The Ambiguity of Augustus’ Gods and Religious Innovations -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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