Description: Ovid's calendar poem the Fasti is a vivid journey through ancient Rome via the calendar. The reader triumphantly tours the monuments of the Augustan-era city, witnesses urban and rustic seasonal festivals, and commemorates epic events of history and myth. Includes Latin text, English prose translation, introduction, and extensive commentary.
Brief description: A. Everett Beek is a Visiting Researcher at Case Western Reserve University. She specializes in Augustan Latin poetry, gender in antiquity, literary depictions of the afterlife and the supernatural and reception of classical literature in renaissance Europe.