This book analyses the mythical and legendary narratives in the "Fasti" as narrative. It covers aspects such as aperture, closure, characterization, internal narrators, description, space, time and also the narratives' complex relationship with Virgil, Livy and Ovid's own earlier works.

Paul Murgatroyd, MA Cambridge, Ph.D. London, is Professor of Classics at McMaster University. He has published 6 books and over 60 articles on Latin and Greek literature. His particular interests lie in Roman elegy (with commentaries on Tibullus, Ovid and Johannes Secundus) and the study of narrative.