Ovid's Fasti: Roman Holidays

Author/Contributor(s):	Ovid ; Nagle, Betty Rose
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Date:	04/22/1995
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.