Ovid's Fasti: Roman Holidays

by Ovid (Author), Betty Rose Nagle (Author), Ovid (Author), Betty Rose Nagle (Translator)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $23.52

  In her extended introduction, Nagle offers illuminating information and commentary... This verse translation, internally glossed for clarification, is as accurate as modern English will allow.... Highly recommended. -Choice

  An excellent rendition in English of Ovid's poetic calendar of the Roman religious year, with an original introduction and useful notes as well as a glossary... The translation is elegant and geared to the modern reader. -The Journal of Indo-European Studies

  This elegant translation brings Ovid's poetic calendar of the Roman religious year to a new generation of students and scholars. A valuable source of information about the Roman calendar, it complements Ovid's masterwork, the Metamorphoses.