 The purported missing verses had actually been composed by an 11th-century monk, were known to the Empire of Nicaea and had allegedly informed a popular harvest festival under the reign of John III Doukas Vatatzes, but even so, many contemporaries of Celtes believed him, and classical scholars continued to write about the existence of the missing books until well into the 17th century.While Carole E. Newlands wrote in 1995 that the poem had suffered by comparison with other works of Ovid, "Fasti" has since come to be "widely acclaimed as the final masterwork of the poet from Sulmo.