Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 117 mm x 169 mm, Gewicht: 277 g
Reihe: Loeb Classical Library
Florus. Hadrian. Nemesianus. Reposianus. Tiberianus. Dicta Catonis. Phoenix. Avianus. Rutilius Namatianus. Others
Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 117 mm x 169 mm, Gewicht: 277 g
Reihe: Loeb Classical Library
ISBN: 978-0-674-99478-2
Verlag: Harvard University Press
A miscellany of mostly imperial verse. This two-volume anthology covers a period of four and a half centuries, beginning with the work of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus who flourished ca. 45 BC and ending with the graphic and charming poem of Rutilius Namatianus recording a sea voyage from Rome to Gaul in AD 416. A wide variety of theme gives interest to the poems: hunting in a poem of Grattius; an inquiry into the causes of volcanic activity by the author of Aetna pastoral poems by Calpurnius Siculus and by Nemesianus; fables by Avianus; a collection of Dicta, moral sayings, as if by the elder Cato; eulogy in Laus Pisonis and the legend of the Phoenix, a poem of the fourth century. Other poets complete the work.
