Sowing the seeds of love: Ovid's Sementivae (Fasti 1.655-704)
The Sementiuae, one of very few feriae conceptiuae (movable feasts) mentioned in the Fasti, is the one most overtly and playfully framed as being out of place within this poem of fixed dates. The festival’s intrusion offers an opportunity for the poet to continue his oblique reflections on the meani...
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Oxford University Press
2024
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