Calendrical Contests: Human and Divine in Ovid’s Fasti
(2012) Max Weber Kolleg — Location: Erfurt (20.March.2012)
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- Comparison between humans and divinities was something of a “live issue” in Late Republican Rome, and ruler cult and its local origins in the cult of divus Iulius have for a long time been an area of active interest in scholarship. We aim to explore human-divine comparisons and/or confrontations in which humans emerge victorious over the god(s), and, rather than being punished, are at the very least not punished, at the very most rewarded for their successful efforts. Our focus will be on Numa’s battle of wits with Jupiter in the Fasti and its relationship with Ovid’s relationship to Augustus in the Tristia, but will encompass glancing blows at other Triumviral and Augustan poets (esp. Virgil and Propertius), and explore how these questions are/are not treated as religious questions, for what reasons, and by whom.
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Kachuck, A. (2012). Calendrical Contests: Human and Divine in Ovid’s Fasti. Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/101113