Prayer to Bacchus, Liber
Bacchus · Liber
Father, turn your mild head here, and gentle horns, and spread the sails of my art to a favourable breeze.
Fons · Source
AuthorOvid
WorkFasti
SectionIII (Liberalia section, closing invocation)
Periodearly 1st c. AD
OccasionLiberalia — poet's closing invocation to Father Liber-Bacchus, asking the horned god to turn his kind gaze and grant favourable inspiration to the poem
Classificatio · Taxonomy
Cultureroman
Formpersonal
DeitiesBacchus, Liber
Functionspetition
Sphereliterary