Desiring Rome:male subjectivity and reading Ovid's Fasti

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: King Richard Jackson 1960-
Published: Ohio State University Press,
Publisher Address: Columbus
Publication Dates: c2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Item Description: Fasti.
Carrier Form: xi, 328 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780814210208
0814210201 (alk. paper)
0814290973 (cd-rom : alk. paper)
9780814290972 (cd-rom : alk. paper)
Index Number: I546
CLC: I546.062
Call Number: I546.062/K542
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-313) and indexes.
Desire and Ovid's Fasti -- Elite males, the Roman calendar and desire of mastery -- Ovid, Germanicus and homosocial desire -- Fasti, fantasy and Janus: an anatomy of libidinal exchange -- Monthly prefaces and the symbolic screen -- Under the Imperial name: Augustus and Ovid's "January" (Fasti, book one) -- Patrimony and transvestism in "February" (Fasti, book two) -- Epilogue: Ovid and broken form: three views.