Founding the year : Ovid's Fasti and the poetics of the Roman calendar / by Molly Pasco-Pranger.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and indexes.

INTRODUCTION -- THE POLITICS OF TEMPORA -- The date(s) of composition of the Fasti and the "political context" -- Power and the calendar -- Multa exempla maiorum exolescentia: recuperating the past -- Exempla imitanda posteris: providing for the future -- Calendrical revisions and social control -- PRAECEPTOR ANNI: THE CALENDRICAL MODEL AND THE FASTI'S DIDACTIC PROJECT -- Poetry and the calendar-builders -- Reading the calendar -- Alter ut hic mensis, sic liber alter eat -- Series rerum -- VENUS' MONTH -- "The poet and the month are yours . . ." -- "Alma, fave," dixi "geminorum mater Amorum" -- Almae matres -- Venus Verticordia and Fortuna Virilis -- Venus Verticordia and Venus Erycina -- Venus Verticordia and Magna Mater -- Magna Mater and Ceres -- Flora -- QUOSCUMQUE SACRIS ADDIDIT ILLE DIES: THE JULIO-CLAUDIAN HOLIDAYS -- Natalis Augusti -- Actian Apollo and the Augustalia -- Domus Augusta, Pax Augusta: January 11-30 -- Praeteriturus eram ... : The death of Caesar -- Aufer, Vesta, diem: Resettling Vesta on April 28 -- LOOKING FORWARD TO JULY -- Whose majesty? (5.11-52) -- "The older god fell . . ." -- Concord comes at last (6.91-96) -- Starting with a glance back (the kalends of May) -- Aiming at kingship -- The young avenger -- Resurrecting the dead -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX LOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX.

This book considers the relationship between the "Fasti", Ovid's long poem on the Roman calendar, and the calendar itself, conceived of as consisting both in the rites and commemorations it organizes and in its graphic representation. The Fasti treats the calendar, recently revised by Caesar and Augustus, as its most important cultural model and as a quasi-literary 'intertext': the poem simultaneously reshapes and is itself shaped by the calendar. The study includes chapters on Book 4 and the rites of April, on the addition of Julio-Claudian holidays to the calendar, and on the final two books of the poem as shaped by the renaming of the months Quintilis and Sextilis for Julius Caesar and Augustus

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