Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti

Darja Šterbenc Erker, Ph.D. (2001), Habil. (2007) is Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow at the Humboldt University Berlin and at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). She has published numerous articles, three edited volumes and two monographs, including Religiöse Rollen römischer Frauen in “griechischen” Ritualen, Steiner, 2013.

• PrefaceList of FiguresIntroduction: Why Read the Fasti as an Elegiac Reflection on Augustan Religious Innovations?Part 1 Religious Self-Legitimation of the domus Augusta1 Inventing Ambivalent Aetiologies of the Concordia Augusta1 From Antiquarian to Elegiac Inquiry into the Past Religious Traditions of Rome2 The Goddess Concordia: Past and Present3 Livia and Concordia4 Elegiac Play with Political and Familial Concordia5 The Etymology of June and Ovid as an Impartial Judge6 Conclusion: Ovid’s Invention of Concordia Augusta Aetiologies2 The Pax Augusta1 From Marble, Painted or Book Calendar to Ovid’s Fasti2 Intermedial Shifts: From Ara Pacis Augustae to Ovid’s Aetiological Elegy3 The Pax Augusta Born out of Imperial Triumphs4 From Augustus’ Closing the Doors of Janus’ Temple to Ovid’s Janus5 Ovidian Conception of Peace6 Conclusion: Contesting the Pax AugustaPart 2 Deification3 Catasterisms and Deifications1 The Transmission of Hellenistic Deification from Alexandria to Rome2 Augustus and Deification3 Germanicus as Divine Protector and Other Deifications in Ovid’s Fasti4 Germanicus as a Fellow Poet5 Germanicus and the Immortality of the Poets6 Conclusion: Poetic Deifications4 Romulus’ Apotheosis as Model for Julius Caesar’s and Augustus’ Deification1 Romulus’ Calendar Failure2 Apotheosis of Romulus3 Do Divine Origins Pave the Way for the Apotheosis?4 Playing with Deifications5 Cicero on Julius Proculus’ Vision of the Epiphany of Romulus6 Livy’s Account of Romulus’ Epiphany7 Dionysius’ Romulus-Quirinus: Addressee of a Hero Cult8 Ovid’s Ambivalent Representation of Romulus’ Epiphany as the God Quirinus9 Deifications and Stultorum Festa10 Untrustworthy Narrator and Imperial Deifications11 Reception of the Ovidian Narrator in Early Imperial Literature5 The Aetiology of Servius Tullius and Fortuna1 Elegiac Cultural Memories of Fortuna’s Temple2 Augustus’ Divinity and His Divine Ancestors3 Fortuna and Servius Tullius4 Conspiring for the Throne5 Conclusion: Ovid’s Competing Cultural Memories of RomePart 3 Ambiguities in Augustus’ Religion6 Augustus’ Religious Self-Fashioning1 Augustus’ Attempts to Approach the Sphere of Gods and Good Rulers2 Augustus’ Accumulation of Priesthoods3 Augustus’ Restoration of Roman Religion4 Augustus’ Honorific Titles5 Conclusion: Augustus’ Divine Charisma7 Ambiguity of Augustus’ Religious Innovations1 Augustus and the Goddess Vesta2 The Lares and Genius Augusti3 Innovations within the Lares Compitales Cult4 Conclusion: The Ambiguity of Augustus’ Gods and Religious InnovationsConclusionBibliographyIndex