Orthodox scholars, however, are opposed to such hypotheses.Claassen, 1987, pp. 31–47. One of their main arguments is that Ovid would not have let his Fasti remain unfinished since the poem was meant to seal his consecration as an imperial poet. Nevertheless, although this work gives the clearest testimony of support of Augustan ideals, it has also been commented that passage 3.371–80 of the Fasti is evidence of resistance to the Augustan succession.Fantham, 1998, p. 42.
