Festivals in Latin Literature by Anke Walter - 9780198931454

Festivals in Latin LiteratureThe Poetics of Celebration\nAuthor(s): Anke Walter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780198931454, 978-0198931454\nSynopsis\nThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND [url] licence.\n\nFestivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti. Festivals in Latin Literature explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic poetry, as well as historiography. In all of these, festivals play a more pervasive role than has so far been realised. Tibullus' elegiac oeuvre rests on an interplay between amatory and festive poetics that even has a political meaning to it, and Propertius uses festivals in his fourth book of elegies to question, from an amatory perspective, the memory typically associated with some key Roman festivals. In the poetry of Sulpicia and Ovid's Tris.