Table Of ContentA COMMENTARY ON OVID: FASTI, BOOK VI
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1 1. Temple of Juno Moneta
2. Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
Campus 3. Temple of Concord
Martius 4. Tabularium
5. Temple of Saturn
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A Commentary on
Ovid: Fasti Book VI
R. JOY LITTLEWOOD
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Preface
SeventyyearsafterFrazerpublishedhismonumentalcommentaryon
Ovid’sFastiin1929,thereappearedtheWrstofawaveofnewEnglish
commentaries:ElaineFantham’sOvid:FastiBookIV,followedin2004
by Steven Green’s Ovid Fasti Book 1. It is perhaps appropriate that
Fasti6shouldcomenext,inordertocompletetheouter‘frame’for
Ovid’s Wrst sixbooks with its thematiccontrasts andsimilarities. At
least one other Fasti commentary is currently in preparation, and it
seemslikelythattheendofthedecadewillseeacompletesetofsix.
TherediscoveryofFastiasanimportantworkofAugustanliterature
was stimulated by the publication of a new Teubner text in 1978 by
Alton, Wormell, and Courtney (AWC). The subsequent Xow of art-
icles and monographs included valuable surveys in the Cambridge
(2001)andBrill’s(2002)CompanionstoOvid,andculminatedina
bookoftwelveessays,Ovid’sFasti:HistoricalReadingsatitsBimillen-
nium, edited by Geraldine Herbert-Brown in 2002, its content ran-
ging across Augustan politics, Roman religion, the calendar,
astronomy, literary criticism, and the iconography of Augustan
monuments. This concentration of scholarship on a single poem
testiWes to the challenge and complexity of Ovid’s Fasti. That a
poem written by Rome’s most inXuential poet at the height of his
successandsimultaneouslywithhisMetamorphosesshouldhavebeen
neglected,misjudged,andunderestimatedacrosssomanyyearsisone
ofthemostremarkablephenomenainWesternliterature.
This commentary aims to highlight the essential components of
Ovid’sliterarytreatmentoftheRomancalendarinitscontextinthe
lateAugustanPrincipate.ThesevensectionsoftheIntroductionaim
to demonstrate how contemporary political and religious changes
are reXected in Ovid’s Fasti (sections 1–2); Ovid’s expansion of the
elegiacgenrethroughtheantiquariancontentofBook6(sec.3);how
thethemesofFasti6contributetoitsunusualslanttowardsworship
in times of war, balancing Fasti 1, a celebration of Peace (sec. 4);
Ovid’snarrativetechnique(sec.5)andhisuseofLivy’shistories(sec.
6);and,brieXy,thetextualtraditionofFasti6(sec.7).
vi Preface
Iamdeeplyindebtedtoanumberofscholarswhohavegenerously
given of their time and expertise. My Wrst thanks must go to Robin
Nisbet who, with characteristic prescience, pointed me towards
Ovid’s Fasti in the late 1970s and patiently set me on the path to
appreciatingthiscontroversialandenigmaticwork.Itgivesmegreat
pleasure, also, to express the warmest gratitude to Elaine Fantham,
Peta Fowler, Geraldine Herbert-Brown, and John F. Miller for their
encouragementandvaluablescholarlycriticismastheyreadthrough
a series of unpromising drafts. They have saved me from innumer-
able errors of judgement; for those which remain, I am of course
entirelyresponsible.SincerethanksareduetoMariaPiaMalvezziof
theBritishSchoolinRome,whogenerouslyarrangedmanyappoint-
mentsformetovisitsites,museumsandartefactsduringmyvisitto
Rome in September 2004, to Sylvia Diebner of D.A.I. (Rome) who
spentseveralhourshelpingmetoselectphotographicnegatives,and,
most particularly, to my travelling companion, Peta Fowler, who
played a major part in planning the trip. This project has been
enriched by the kindness of Philip Hardie, Stephen Harrison, and
GregoryHutchinsonoftheUniversityofOxfordwhowelcomedme
to their seminars and colloquia, from which a number of lively
discussions have contributed to this commentary. Iowe a consider-
abledebtofgratitudetoHilaryO’SheaandhercolleaguesatOxford
UniversityPressfortheirpatientguidance.Ishouldalsoliketothank
for their valuable contributions from widely diVerent areas of
professional expertise: Mensun Bound, Donald Hill, Andreas Lo¨we,
and, in particular, my two sons, Cedric and Julian Littlewood. My
greatest debt, however, is to my husband, John, whose wise and
tactful criticism was always accompanied by loyal and unstinting
encouragement.
R.J.L.
Dorchester-on-Thames
Oxfordshire
April2005
Contents
ListofWguresandplans viii
Abbreviations x
Introduction xiii
1. Ovid’sFastiinitshistoricalcontext xiii
2. Augustus’reorganizationofRomanreligionandits
impactonFasti6 xxii
3. Genreandantiquarianism xxxv
4. Themes lii
5. Ovid’snarrativetechnique lxvii
6. Ovid’sdebttoLivy inFasti6 lxxv
7. Thetext lxxxii
Listofalternativereadings lxxxiv
StructuraloutlineofOvid’scalendar forJune lxxxv
COMMENTARY 1
Bibliography 236
Indexnominum 249
Indexrerum 255
Indexverborum 258
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List of gures and plans
Figures
1. TheSorrentobase xxiv
2. Ceres,Tellus,orPaxfromAraPacisAugustae xxix
3. TheAltaroftheLaresfromthevicusSandalarius xxxiii
4. TerracottaanteWx:JunoSospitawithgoatskin
headdress xli
5. Etruscanbronzemirror:JunosucklingHercules xlv
6. Terracottarevetmentshowingchariotprocession xlviii
7. JunoofLanuvium liv
8. Larariumfresco:Vestaanddonkey lix
9. LiberandVolcanusasayoungwarriorgod lxi
10. BelvedereAltarshowingapotheosisofDivusIulius lxvi
11. Palladiumstatuefromthe‘TheftofthePalladium’ 131
12. MaterMatuta:Etruscancinerarystatue 146
13. Ino:headfrompedimentofTempleofMater
Matuta,Pyrgi 158
14. TwoFortunaeatalectisternium,marblesculpture 170
15. ReliefoffuneralscenefromAmiternum 198
16. DrawingofdiaulosfromtheGiglioshipwreck
(580bc) 205
Figuresandplans ix
Plans
1. CityofRome,showingmainareasmentionedin
Ovid’sFasti6 ii
2. Capitolium 56
3. ForumRomanum 125
4. ForumBoarium 150
