The succession-structure in Fasti III: from Romulus to Numa as a prototype of Augustus

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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2018.07.1712

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Ovid, Fasti, Romulus, Numa, Augustus, succession

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In the Fasti the image of Romulus fails to allude to Augustus because Ovid’s contemporary Augustus no longer responds to the Romulean prototype of a new founder of the city, and resembles Numa instead, king devoted to peace, rites and to the study of the stars. This circumstance is especially dramatized in II 119-144 as well as in I 27-44 and III 73-166. Nevertheless, Book III is the locus of the work in which this dramatization is most emphasized, since little less than a half of the Book (the first half) is devoted successively to Romulus and to Numa. In this paper we study how this succession-structure influences the construction of Augustus as a character, with conclusions about the Ovidian poetic construction of history: Ovid

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2018-06-30

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Martínez Astorino, P. (2018). The succession-structure in Fasti III: from Romulus to Numa as a prototype of Augustus. Emerita, 86(1), 133–149. https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2018.07.1712

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