Festivals in Latin Literature

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti. Festivals in Latin Literature explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic poetry, as well as historiography. In all of these, festivals play a more pervasive role...