![]() ![]() ![]() For Newlands, the opening dedication is a clear example of later revision, especially given that the second book begins with a dedication to Augustus (II.3-18). Geraldine Herbert-Brown, Ovid and the Fasti), or as at certain points critical of Augustus’s regime and the brutalities of Rome’s past (e.g. Various interpretations of the Fasti see the poem as being significantly influenced by the poet’s exile, either through the updating of its encomium (e.g. ![]() Augustus died in 14 CE, and it is commonly thought that Ovid changed the dedicatee upon his demise. ![]() Most scholars, however, believe that this is merely apologetic exaggeration, and that the confusion over the dedication is due to a revision of the Fasti made while Ovid was exiled in Torrus (see John Miller, Style, Structure, and Time, p. The dedicatee has been the source of much discussion among interpreters, as in the Tristia (II.549-552) Ovid claims that it is in fact the Princeps, Augustus, to whom he dedicates the work, and that his writing of the poem (which he claims was to be twelve books long, rather than the six that we possess) was interrupted by his exile in 8 CE. The Fasti, Ovid’s commentary on the Roman calendar and its festivities,opens with this dedication to Caesar Germanicus, the adopted heir of Tiberius, and grandson of Augustus. ![]()
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