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CAMBRIDGE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS

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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

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OVID FASTI

BOOK 3

edited by S. J. Heyworth Bowra Fellow & Tutor in Classics Wadham College, Oxford

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In memory of James Morwood Classicist, Teacher, Friend

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

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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 suggestions). 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 others 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

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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. Unlike the Oxford commentaries on Propertius 3 and Aeneid 3, James was never part of the authorial team for this book, but he read much and encouraged more. Like many others I shall miss his critical eye, as well as his friendship. PS. Warm thanks are owed to Jane Burkowski, Glenn Lacki, and Michael Malone-Lee for patient checking of references, and to Malcolm Todd for his thoughtful copy-editing.