β Ovid
π Fiction
π
2004
π Penguin Books Ltd
π English
β 273 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
Fasti
β Scribed by Ovid
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA, Inc.
- Year
- 2010;2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 476 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0141913339
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Beneath a 'patriotic' façade, Ovid's final poem is deliciously subversive of the values and propaganda of the emperor who sent him into exile.One of the fullest and most enjoyable sources of information on Roman myth and religion, the Fasti is both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles and genres, comic, tragic, elegiac, epic and erotic. Yet many of them are shot through with uncomfortable political echoes. Augustus tried to control his subjects by imposing his own version of history and annual cycle of festivals on them, but Ovid - banished to the Black Sea - brilliantly debunks the official heroes and power structures. (After celebrating the emperor in his preferred image of Jupiter-on-earth, for example, he deliberately juxtaposes a story showing the king of gods as a savage rapist.) Endlessly playful, this is also a work of real integrity and courage, a superb climax to the career of one of Rome's greatest writers.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
β Husain, Intizar
π Fiction
π
2012;2013
π New York Review Books
π English
β 193 KB
π 1 views
Zakir lives in a paradise where everyone and everything is in harmony, until one day he wakens to a world in the midst of spiritual and national crisis.
β Ovidio
π Fiction
π
0012
π ePubLibre
π Spanish
β 160 KB
La ruptura con la elegΓa amorosa que Ovidio anuncia al final de Amores le conduce a temas muy distintos. Fastos es un poema didΓ‘ctico sobre el calendario romano, el origen de los nombres de los meses y de ceremonias, festivales y cultos y la incidencia de la astronomΓa en todos ellos. Para estas exp
β Nick Arnold
π Fiction
π
1997
π Scholastic UK
π en-GB
β 13 MB
π 1 views
*Nasty Nature* is packed with the deadliest, most disgusting and nastiest things that nature has to offer. Only read on if you're ready to find out: how vampire bats slurp blood, how to dodge a man-eating tiger and which Japanese fish dish can kill you. Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the n
β M. C. Beaton
π Fiction
π
2011;2010
π Constable & Robinson
π English
β 109 KB
π 1 views
**The future's not so rosy for Lady Rose Summer ...** Longing for a life of emancipation, Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parent's house to become self supporting. But life as a working woman isn't quite as liberating as Rose has imagined - fortunately for her, though, her drudger
β Leo Darke
π Fiction
π
2015
π Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
π ar-SA
β 160 KB
π 1 views
*Cut!* Film and TV extras are turning up butchered on set, the only clues being VHS cassettes of infamous, banned "Video Nasties" on the site of each horrific murder. Is a copycat killer at large, inspired by the vile acts depicted in the notorious tapes? Or could the monstrous characters from the