The Fasti (Latin: Fāstī [faːstiː], "the Calendar"), sometimes translated as The Book of Days or On the Roman Calendar, is a six-book Latin poem written...
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The Rape of Lucrece (redirect from Lucrece (poem))
1632 and 1655. The poem went through eight editions before 1641. The Rape of Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's History...
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Tarquin and Lucretia (category Paintings based on Fasti (poem))
Tarquin and Lucretia is an oil painting by Titian completed in 1571, when the artist was in his eighties, for Philip II of Spain. It is signed, and considered...
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Lucretia and Tarquin (Luca Giordano) (category Paintings based on Fasti (poem))
Lucretia and Tarquin (Italian: Lucrezia e Tarquinio) is a 1663 oil painting by Luca Giordano of the legendary rape of Lucretia by Sextus Tarquin, as told...
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Primavera (Botticelli) (category Paintings based on Fasti (poem))
inspired by a description by the Roman poet Ovid of the arrival of Spring (Fasti, Book 5, 2 May). In this the wood nymph Chloris recounts how her naked charms...
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Book of Days may refer to: Fasti (poem), known in English as the "Book of Days", a Latin poem by Ovid Chambers Book of Days, by Robert Chambers The Wicca...
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The Vestal Claudia Towing the Ship Bearing the Statue of Cybele (category Paintings based on Fasti (poem))
venerable sculpture in Phrygia (Asia Minor). However, as narrated in the Fasti by Ovid, the omens became nefarious when the ship porting the statue up...
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Ovid (redirect from Nux (poem))
on the Fasti, a six-book poem in elegiac couplets on the theme of the calendar of Roman festivals and astronomy. The composition of this poem was interrupted...
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Felicitanalia allegedly described by Ovid in the missing 11th book of the Fasti (poem). Felicitas Perpetua Saeculi ("Perpetual Blessedness of the Age") appears...
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The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus (category Paintings based on Fasti (poem))
Bacchus and the discovery of honey, as described in the ancient Roman poem Fasti by Ovid. It is in the collection of the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester...
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