02-04-2018, 07:21 PM
I forgot to include a scholarly criticism of the Kalendar (written from a humanist perspective, so I don't agree with every conclusion, but it is a monument of erudition), Warde Fowler's Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic:
https://archive.org/stream/romanfestival...0/mode/2up
I possess a physical copy and it is not expensive, besides being well worth having in a more convenient form like this. It draws on all extant fasti as well as on the Latin writers. It is best to use it in conjunction with some or ideally all sources to hand as the primary sources occasionally contradict his commentary, to my mind, while all of them are well worth a detailed study. Ovid's Fasti, some of Macrobius' Saturnalia, the Lingua Latina of Varro, Ab urbe condita libri [The Roman History]by Livy, the Fabulae of Pseudo-Hyginus, some of the Aeneid and the satires of Persius Flaccus are all available in English online if one wants to read them for free. Try archive.org, Perseus, Lacus Curtius and the Theoi Classical Texts Library.
Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights is not, nor are the latter books of the Aeneid, nor the entire English text of the Saturnalia.
Varro and Aulus Gellius are a delight to read -- digressive, discursive, erudite and broadminded. Livy is a master of Latin prose and the Fasti is lovely. For the historical notes to the Fasti of Praeneste see Suetonius' Twelve Caesars, the RES GESTAE DIVI AVGVSTI, the TRISTIA EX PONTO of Ovid and good old Livy, all available free in English. Dio Cassius cannot be got in English online, and Greek scholars are rarer than Latinists, but Loeb copies can be got from [very] good libraries.
Incidentally, I am deeply in Nathan Ross' debt for the Kalendars of Polemius [Silvius] and Philocalus. There are details there the Fasti of Praeneste lacks.
https://archive.org/stream/romanfestival...0/mode/2up
I possess a physical copy and it is not expensive, besides being well worth having in a more convenient form like this. It draws on all extant fasti as well as on the Latin writers. It is best to use it in conjunction with some or ideally all sources to hand as the primary sources occasionally contradict his commentary, to my mind, while all of them are well worth a detailed study. Ovid's Fasti, some of Macrobius' Saturnalia, the Lingua Latina of Varro, Ab urbe condita libri [The Roman History]by Livy, the Fabulae of Pseudo-Hyginus, some of the Aeneid and the satires of Persius Flaccus are all available in English online if one wants to read them for free. Try archive.org, Perseus, Lacus Curtius and the Theoi Classical Texts Library.
Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights is not, nor are the latter books of the Aeneid, nor the entire English text of the Saturnalia.
Varro and Aulus Gellius are a delight to read -- digressive, discursive, erudite and broadminded. Livy is a master of Latin prose and the Fasti is lovely. For the historical notes to the Fasti of Praeneste see Suetonius' Twelve Caesars, the RES GESTAE DIVI AVGVSTI, the TRISTIA EX PONTO of Ovid and good old Livy, all available free in English. Dio Cassius cannot be got in English online, and Greek scholars are rarer than Latinists, but Loeb copies can be got from [very] good libraries.
Incidentally, I am deeply in Nathan Ross' debt for the Kalendars of Polemius [Silvius] and Philocalus. There are details there the Fasti of Praeneste lacks.
Patrick J. Gray
'' Now. Close your eyes. It's but a short step to the boat, a short pull across the river.''
''And then?''
''And then, I promise you, you'll dream a different story altogether''
From ''I, Claudius'', by J. Pulman after R. Graves.
'' Now. Close your eyes. It's but a short step to the boat, a short pull across the river.''
''And then?''
''And then, I promise you, you'll dream a different story altogether''
From ''I, Claudius'', by J. Pulman after R. Graves.
