RT Book T1 Ambiguity and religion in Ovid's Fasti: religious innovation and the imperial family T2 Mnemosyne / Supplementum JF Mnemosyne / Supplementum A1 Šterbenc Erker, Darja LA English PP Leiden Boston PB Brill YR 2023 UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1836304420 AB "Ovid's Fasti offers multifocal views of Augustan religion to convey ambivalences, inconsistencies and paradoxes in the imperial family's religious agenda. Darja Sterbenc Erker explores Ovid's irreverent and ambiguous presentations of calendrical aeitiologies, deifications and imperial gods that humorously call to mind Arachne's tapestry depicting faulty gods and that stand in sharp contrast to the poet's more serious discussions of the values he cherishes, such as freedom and poetic immortality. Especially in the exilic revisions of the poem, Ovid emphasises the motif of bestowing divine honours upon mortals through poetry. For him, the stars in the heavens do not represent deified statesmen but immortal authors"-- NO Includes bibliographical references and index CN PA6519.F9 SN 9789004527034 SN 9004527036 K1 Ovid : 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D : Fasti K1 Augustus : Emperor of Rome : 63 B.C.-14 A.D : In literature K1 Ambiguity in literature K1 Religion in literature K1 Apotheosis in literature K1 Literary Criticism