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Some Thoughts about the Fasti of James George Frazer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2015

Emma Gee
Emma Gee*
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University of Exeter
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The abridged version of The Golden Bough has in the 1990s alone been reissued in several paperback editions. This would have pleased its author, with his penchant for successive editions and modifications of his own works. Sir James Frazer is still being read, at least in epitome, despite the fact that his anthropological work is apparently considered something of a dinosaur. At the same time, bemused Classics undergraduates are still getting their first contact with Ovid’s Fasti through Frazer’s Loeb translation of 1931, and doing battle with his 1929 commentary as the only one available in English on Ovid’s calendar-poem in its entirety.

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Antichthon , Volume 32 , November 1998 , pp. 64 - 90
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Copyright © Australasian Society for Classical Studies 1998

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