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." One of the chief concerns that has occupied readers of the poem is its political message and its relationship with the Augustan household. The work contains much material on Augustus, his relatives, and the imperial cult, as signalled in the preface by his address to Germanicus that explains that he will find "festivals pertaining to your house; often the names of your father and grandfather will meet you on the page." (1.9–10)