Hac Ego Saturnum Memini Tellure Receptum. Janus and Saturn in Ovid’s Fasti (1.229–254)

Preseka, Diotima (2009) Hac Ego Saturnum Memini Tellure Receptum. Janus and Saturn in Ovid’s Fasti (1.229–254). Acta Antiqua, 49 (4). pp. 453-466. ISSN 0044-5975

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Abstract

The god Janus is a programmatic figure in Ovid’s Fasti , having in his complexity even more than two faces. Yet a passage of the dialogue ( F . 1. 229–254) between the god and the poet has not received due attention. The main interest of this paper is to show how the tradition connecting the ship (represented on the coin) with Janus or Saturnus, respectively, is re-shaped by Ovid in order to clarify his position towards Vergil’s concurrent passage in Aeneid 8: Janus is not an immigrant as Saturnus, but an indigenous god. In addition, the difference between Vergil’s and Ovid’s attitude to the teleology of Roman history will be elucidated.

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