Fasti

Ovid (43 BC - AD 18) was a Roman writer who mastered a wide range of literary forms from elegies of nostalgia and love to 'collective' narratives relating disconnected stories, such as Metamorphoses. He died in exile by the Black Sea. Ovid's influence has extended through Chaucer's age to Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, and to poets such as Ted Hughes in the twentieth century.Anthony Boyle is Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is the editor of the classical literary journal Ramus and his publications include Ancient Pastoral, The Imperial Muse and Roman Literature and Ideology.Roger Woodard is Associate Professor of Classics at UCLA. His publications include Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.

• Translated and Edited with an Introduction, Notes, and Glossary by A.J. Boyle and R.D. WoodardPrefaceMaps:The World of Ovid's FastiGreece in Ovid's FastiItaly and Sicily Ovid's FastiOvid's Rome: Major Sites and MonumentsIntroductionFurther ReadingTranslation and Latin TextSummary of FastiOmissions from FastiOvid's FastiBook 1Book 2Book 3Book 4Book 5Book 6NotesList of AbbreviationsGlossary

"Fasti has burst upon the scholarly scene as a work of tremendous importance for our understanding of religion under the Principate...have provided us with what must be seen as a new commentary upon the poem...But the real value of this new Fasti, of course, lies not in its front or back material but in the lively rendition of Ovid's own words...Boyle and Woodard have given us a fresh-sounding poem with updated diction." —Christopher Brunelle, Boston College