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Carmen Astrologicum Elegiacum

Carmen Astrologicum Elegiacum

Dirk Obbink
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This is the editio princeps, based on new papyrus discoveries, of a Greek poem on astrology by an author whose notorious collaborations with Simon Magus is novelistically recounted in the Clementina. A versified handbook of horoscopes and introduction to the sciences, it is the only Greek astrological poem to have been written in elegiac couplets, and ist a new accession to the corpus of didactic poetry in the tradition of Aratus' Phaenomena, Manilius' Astronomica, and Ovid's Fasti. The edition offers a collection and complete re-edition of the remains of the poem's original four books: published and unpublished papyri, plus fragments and testimonia preserved in the secondary tradition.
Language
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Pages
79
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Release
September 02, 2022
ISBN
3111813584
ISBN 13
9783111813585

Carmen Astrologicum Elegiacum

Dirk Obbink
0/5 ( ratings)
This is the editio princeps, based on new papyrus discoveries, of a Greek poem on astrology by an author whose notorious collaborations with Simon Magus is novelistically recounted in the Clementina. A versified handbook of horoscopes and introduction to the sciences, it is the only Greek astrological poem to have been written in elegiac couplets, and ist a new accession to the corpus of didactic poetry in the tradition of Aratus' Phaenomena, Manilius' Astronomica, and Ovid's Fasti. The edition offers a collection and complete re-edition of the remains of the poem's original four books: published and unpublished papyri, plus fragments and testimonia preserved in the secondary tradition.
Language
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Pages
79
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Release
September 02, 2022
ISBN
3111813584
ISBN 13
9783111813585

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