Abstract
Fastiis Ovid's prime exilic work. Begun at the same time asMetamorphosesit is yet the last of Ovid's poems, rewritten in exile to juxtapose past and present, centre and periphery, tradition, religion, time and their ideological appropriation and abuse. Ovid'scarmen ultimum, it joinsEpistulae ex Pontoin straddling the principates of Augustus and Tiberius and bearing witness withEpistulaeto the factuality of dynastic succession and the consolidation of imperial power. There is no evidence that any ofFastiwas recited, or otherwise made public, before Ovid's departure for Tomis; indeed the only reference toFastioutside itself is the secondTristia'sdescription of the rupturing of the work (opus ruptum, Tr.2.552) by Ovid's exilic ‘fate’ (sors). Pre-exilic and exilic strata exist in the poem, as many critics have too frequently noted, but, since they were never read in separate contexts but always within the frame of Ovid's exile, their dynamic interplay serves only to enrich and to deepen the exilic nature ofFasti'sdiscourse.
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