as accurate as modern English will allow.... Highly recommended." ?ChoiceAn excellent rendition in English of Ovid’s poetic calendar of the Roman religious year, with an original introduction and useful notes as well as a glossary... The translation is elegant and geared to the modern reader." ?The Journal of Indo-European StudiesThis elegant translation brings Ovid’s poetic calendar of the Roman religious year to a new generation of students and scholars. A valuable source of information about the Roman calendar, it complements Ovid’s masterwork, the Metamorphoses.

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