{"id":4615,"date":"2025-06-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:06:35","slug":"ovid-abandons-the-fasti-ovid-june-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/ovid-abandons-the-fasti-ovid-june-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovid abandons the &#8216;Fasti&#8217; June 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/OVID-19TH-CENTURY-ENGRAVING-BY-jw-cOOK-679x1024.jpg\" alt=\"OVID 19TH CENTURY ENGRAVING BY j w cOK\" class=\"wp-image-1554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/OVID-19TH-CENTURY-ENGRAVING-BY-jw-cOOK-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/OVID-19TH-CENTURY-ENGRAVING-BY-jw-cOOK-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/OVID-19TH-CENTURY-ENGRAVING-BY-jw-cOOK-768x1158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/OVID-19TH-CENTURY-ENGRAVING-BY-jw-cOOK-1019x1536.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/OVID-19TH-CENTURY-ENGRAVING-BY-jw-cOOK-1359x2048.jpg 1359w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/OVID-19TH-CENTURY-ENGRAVING-BY-jw-cOOK-scaled.jpg 1698w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">OVID 19TH CENTURY ENGRAVING BY J W COOK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to read Ovid&#8217;s almanac of the year, the &#8216;Fasti&#8217;, for yourself, this is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoi.com\/Text\/OvidFasti2.html\">translation<\/a> I am using.  Fasti is very valuable because it tells the stories of the main religious and folk festivals of the Roman year.  It also tells the story of the Gods and Goddesses behind the festivals,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fasti is sadly unfinished because <strong>P\u016bblius Ovidius N\u0101s\u014d<\/strong> was exiled by the Emperor Augustus. The last entry is for 30th June where Ovid writes: &#8216;put the last touches to my undertaking&#8217;.  It suggests he knew he was finished, despite only being halfway through the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was exiled to the Black Sea at Tomis where he died ten years later. It is not clear exactly why he was exiled. Ostensibly it was for the immorality of his book &#8216;The Art of Love&#8217;. But that was published almost a decade earlier. So, it seems a strange, delayed,  cause for exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was he involved with a plot against Augustus that saw the Emperor&#8217;s own daughter exiled? Her lover was Lullus Antonius, son of Mark Antony. Unlike Julia&#8217;s other lovers, he was forced to commit suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Toulouse_Portrait_de_Julie_Musee_Saint-Raymond_Ra_338.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Toulouse_Portrait_de_Julie_Musee_Saint-Raymond_Ra_338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Toulouse_Portrait_de_Julie_Musee_Saint-Raymond_Ra_338-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sculpture of Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus, divorced wife of Tiberius Public Domain . <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q61670644\">Mus\u00e9e Saint-Raymond in B\u00e9ziers<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But this also happened years before Ovid&#8217;s exile. Julia&#8217;s daughter, Julia the Younger, was herself exiled closer to the time of Ovid&#8217;s exile. Her husband, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucius_Aemilius_Paullus_(consul_1)\">Lucius Aemilius Paullus<\/a>, was executed for treason. So, might this be the context of his exile? No one knows. Ovid said the reason for his exile was a &#8216;poem and a mistake&#8217;. The nature of that mistake is not recorded, but he said the crime was worse than murder and more harmful than poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is one of my favourite Ovid quotations.   Here he recommends how the aspiring male should dress for a night out on the town:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t torture your hair, though, with curling-iron: don&#8217;t pumice<br>Your legs into smoothness. Leave that<br>To Mother Cybele&#8217;s votaries, ululating in chorus<br>With their Phrygian modes. Real men<br>Shouldn&#8217;t primp their good looks <strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8230; Keep pleasantly clean, take exercise, work up an outdoor<br>Tan; make quite sure that your toga fits<br>And doesn&#8217;t show spots; don&#8217;t lace your shoes too tightly,<br>Or ignore any rusty buckles, or slop<br>Around in too large a fitting. Don&#8217;t let some incompetent barber<br>Ruin you looks: both hair and beard demand<br>Expert attention. Keep your nails pared, and dirt-free;<br>Don&#8217;t let those long hairs sprout<br>In your nostrils, make sure your breath is never offensive.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Avoid the rank male stench<br>That wrinkles noses. Beyond this is for wanton women &#8211;<br>Or any half-man who wants to attract men.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ovid, The Art of Love <\/em><sup><em><a href=\"#sdendnote1sym\"><sup>i<\/sup><\/a><\/em><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The translation is from Green, Peter (Trans) &#8216;Ovid The Erotic Poems&#8217; Penguin Classics, London 1982\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mother Cybele&#8217;s votaries were castrati, hence their high-pitched voices. The Cybele, the Mother Goddess, fell in love with Attys, who made her jealous. She made him mad, whereupon he castrated himself and bled to death. The Goddess had him resurrected body and soul. They enjoyed divine bliss ever after. A Cybelian castration device, dredged out of the Thames, can be seen in the Roman Gallery of the British Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"597\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bm-015.jpg\" alt=\"photo of  Castration Device from the River Thames at London Bridge British Museum Photo kevin flude\" class=\"wp-image-4613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bm-015.jpg 597w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bm-015-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bm-015-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bm-015-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">British Museum Castration Device from the River Thames at London Bridge Photo: K Flude<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The paragraph above is a quotation from <strong>In Their Own Words \u2013 A Literary Companion To The Origins Of London<\/strong>\u2018 D A Horizons, 2009.&nbsp; by Kevin Flude. To buy the Kindle or Paperback  version click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Their-Own-Words-Kevin-Flude\/dp\/190510877X\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.QWOM7wwCABMzhjQEl1roZoNjfV34pDT_KovKl74LUVGR2nRNQGo5-6sAbWsd9MOARWBkXQLCizw-Ct-STzWrwg.ZUzx_OvgKwpjJiKidRElfmZUGn9UiNi89GSRLCuWqrw&amp;qid=1733560752&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read my post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/february-19th-metamorphosis-crocus-and-saffron\/\">Ovid&#8217;s Metamorphosis-crocus-and-saffron\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>On This Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1381<\/strong> &#8211; King revokes abolition of Serfdom. This had been &#8216;forced&#8217; upon the Government at Mile End during the Peasants Revolt. The royal charter was revoked July 2nd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Published in 2024 and revised in 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to read Ovid&#8217;s almanac of the year, the &#8216;Fasti&#8217;, for yourself, this is the translation I am using. Fasti is very valuable because it tells the stories of the main religious and folk festivals of the Roman year. 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