Publius Ovidius Naso

sideblog for the apprecation of Ovid's Fasti

[consulships]

i miss vergil. i would. well. shant say

[vergilius-aeneid]

you had my curiosity

but now you have my attention

[ovidius-fasti]

me asf rn [I've been exiled]:

[ovidius-fasti]

Janus

Roman god of: beginnings and ends ; gates, doorways, passages ; transitions ; time ; duality

statue of Janus Bifrons [the god of two fronts] in the Vatican Museums

Ovid's Fasti: I.103-114

The ancients called me Chaos, for a being from of old am I; observe the long, long ages of which my song shall tell. Yon lucid air and the three others bodies, fire, water, earth, were huddled all in one. When once, through the discord of its elements, the mass parted, dissolved, and went in diverse ways to seek new homes, flame sought the height, air filled the nearer space, while earth and sea sank in the middle deep. 'Twas then that I, till that time a mere ball, a shapeless lump, assumed the face and members of a god. And even now, small index of my erst chaotic state, my front and back look just the same

Nam tibi par nullum Graecia numen habet

''for Greece hath no divinity like thee''

Ovid's Fasti: I.90

as translated by James G. Frazer Loeb Classical Library 253 available online via ToposText