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The edition offers a collection and complete re-edition of the remains of the poem's original four books: published and unpublished papyri, plus fragments and testimonia preserved in the secondary tradition.
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The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849, has evolved into the world's most venerable and extensive series of editions of Greek and Latin literature, ranging from classical to Neo-Latin texts. Some 4-5 new editions are published every year.
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"In addition to historians of astrology, scholars of Hellenistic and didactic poetry will also want to use this fine Teubner edition." Roger Beck in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 09/2007

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ISBN
9783598712289
Publisert
2006-12-19
Utgiver
De Gruyter; De Gruyter
Vekt
309 gr
Høyde
230 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Gresk, klassisk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
89

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