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Front Matter Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01647-7 — Ovid: Fasti Book 3 Edited with Introduction and Notes by S. J. Heyworth Frontmatter More Information CAMBRIDGE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS General Editors P. E. Easterling Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, University of Cambridge Philip Hardie Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, and Honorary Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge Neil Hopkinson Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge Richard Hunter Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge E. J. Kenney Kennedy Professor Emeritus of Latin, University of Cambridge S. P. Oakley Kennedy Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01647-7 — Ovid: Fasti Book 3 Edited with Introduction and Notes by S. J. Heyworth Frontmatter More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01647-7 — Ovid: Fasti Book 3 Edited with Introduction and Notes by S. J. Heyworth Frontmatter More Information OVID FASTI BOOK 3 edited by S. J. Heyworth Bowra Fellow & Tutor in Classics Wadham College, Oxford © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01647-7 — Ovid: Fasti Book 3 Edited with Introduction and Notes by S. J. Heyworth Frontmatter More Information University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, ny 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, Australia 314–321, 3rd Floor, Plot 3, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi – 110025, India 79 Anson Road, #06–04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107016477 doi: 10.1017/9781139061124 © Cambridge University Press 2019 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2019 Printed in the United Kingdom by TJ International Ltd. Padstow Cornwall A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library. isbn 978-1-107-01647-7 Hardback isbn 978-1-107-60246-5 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01647-7 — Ovid: Fasti Book 3 Edited with Introduction and Notes by S. J. Heyworth Frontmatter More Information In memory of James Morwood Classicist, Teacher, Friend © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01647-7 — Ovid: Fasti Book 3 Edited with Introduction and Notes by S. J. Heyworth Frontmatter More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01647-7 — Ovid: Fasti Book 3 Edited with Introduction and Notes by S. J. Heyworth Frontmatter More Information CONTENTS Preface page ix Introduction 1 1. Ovid’s Life and Career 1 2. Fasti and Metamorphoses 5 3. Fasti and Exile 10 4. Fasti and Calendars 13 5. Book 3 18 (a) Synopsis 18 (b) Beginning and Continuing 19 (c) Religion and Theology 21 (d) History and Myth 23 (e) Allegory 25 (f) Rome, and Other Places 26 (g) Women 27 6. Genre, Style, Metre 28 (a) Generic Complexity 28 (b) Didactic 29 (c) Diction, Rhetoric and Word Order 31 (d) Narrative 34 (e) Metre and Versiication 35 (f) Elegy (and Epic): Discontinuity and Humour 40 7. Text 43 P. OVIDI NASONIS FASTORVM LIBER TERTIVS 47 Commentary 75 Works cited 267 Abbreviations 267 Editions of and Commentaries on the ‘Fasti’ 268 Other Works Cited 268 Indices 279 Index of Latin Words 279 General Index 282 vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01647-7 — Ovid: Fasti Book 3 Edited with Introduction and Notes by S. J. Heyworth Frontmatter More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01647-7 — Ovid: Fasti Book 3 Edited with Introduction and Notes by S. J. Heyworth Frontmatter More Information PREFACE One of many debts I owe to the Latin Literature seminar of my years as a graduate student in Cambridge (1980–3) is a love of Ovid’s Fasti: one term I had the pleasure and the education of reading book 2 with John Henderson, Stephen Hinds, Stephen Oakley, Neil Wright and others. When I became Tutor at Wadham in 1988 the recently reformed sylla- bus had book 3 as one of the texts set for those studying Ovid: it made a particularly ine pair with Metamorphoses 1, each of them beginning with a narrative sequence of untypical length before the poem was complicated by the intrusion of less epic material. Reading classes with students gave me a sense that there was much to say; and enjoyable exchanges with Stephen Hinds, especially when we met at State College, Pennsylvania in March 1990, revealed that he was already well advanced in writing up a great deal of this, especially on genre and politics (Hinds 1992). Rather than an article I therefore conceived of producing a commentary, a pro- ject to follow the major work on the text of Propertius to which I was committed. And here it is, at last. Along the way, I have accumulated many further debts of gratitude. I irst thank the many Wadham students (and a few from other colleges) with whom I read Fasti 3 between 1988 and 1997; then those mem- bers of the Oxford Sub-Faculty who came to a presentation of work on 3.393–458 on 5 February 2009 (especially Rebecca Armstrong, Bob Cowan, Francesca Martelli, Ruth Parkes), and to a reading class on the whole book in Trinity Term 2013 (especially Stephen Harrison, Gregory Hutchinson, Matthew Leigh, Llewelyn Morgan, Matthew Robinson, Andrew Sillett, Barnaby Taylor: * marks previously unpublished sugges- tions). Appreciative audiences gave thoughtful and stimulating responses to talks based on sections of the commentary at the following universi- ties and colleges: Leiden, Pennsylvania, Florida State, Dickinson, Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Edinburgh, Columbia, Virginia. Others provided venues for trying out material that turned into sections of the introduction, or responded in important ways to what I said: Fiacha Mac Góráin and oth- ers at the conference on ‘Dionysus in Rome’ at UCL, September 2015; Maud Pfaff and others at the bimillennial conference on Ovid at the Sorbonne, March 2017, Luis Rivero García and his team of organizers for the bimillennial conference in Huelva, October 2017; Krešimir Vukovic,́ Ian Goh and others at the conference ‘Natales grate numeras’, University of Zadar, April 2017; Stavros Frangoulidis and others for the Thessaloniki conference on Intratextuality, May 2017. My greatest debt is to the Series editors: Ted Kenney rejected an initial informal approach on the grounds that the Fasti was not a much read text ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01647-7 — Ovid: Fasti Book 3 Edited with Introduction and Notes by S. J. Heyworth Frontmatter More Information x PREFACE and Elaine Fantham, already signed up to do book 4, was likely to pro- duce her commentary rather sooner (as she did: 1998). Ted was, however, one of the receptive readers when a worked-up proposal was submitted in 2009, along with Philip Hardie and Stephen Oakley, who have read every section of the book with all the care and intelligence that their rep- utations as scholars and editors would lead one to hope for. Their mix of patience, encouragement, and perceptiveness has been exemplary and sustaining. Others who have made speciic suggestions or read portions of the work include Sergio Casali, Thomas Coward, Joe Farrell, Tristan Franklinos, Barrie Hall, Harriet Heyworth, James Ker, Peter Knox, Joy Littlewood, Ray Ockenden, Ruth Parkes, Emma Searle, Gail Trimble, Christina Tsaknaki, Krešimir Vukovic.́ Special thanks are owed to Matthew Robinson, not least for his help with matters astronomical. John Miller, whose long engagement with the poem has made him a particularly valued reader and friend, got in touch soon after I began, with the news that he too was planning a commentary on Fasti 3; but when he discovered that I was ahead of him, he graciously changed direction and started work on book 5 instead. I look forward with excitement to that third member of the green-and-yellow Fasti family. This commentary was begun in earnest at the British School, where I had the privilege and pleasure of holding the Hugh Last Fellowship from April to July 2009: I am deeply grateful for the support that enabled me to explore Rome’s topography, and for the inspiration and help provided by many of the other residents, especially Robert Coates-Stephens and the students on the City of Rome course, the then Director Andrew Wallace- Hadrill, Frank Sear, Marden Nichols, Katherine van Schaik. Finally, I dedicate this book to the memory of my Wadham colleague James Morwood, from whom and with whom I learnt much about the art of writing commentaries. James died on 10 September 2017, just after I had inished my text by drafting the introduction: he had read Section 6, and made valuable suggestions on metre in particular.
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