ORIGO GENTIS ROMANAE. Die Ursprünge des römischen Volkes. Herausgegeben, übersetzt, kommentiert und mit Essays versehen von M. Sehlmeyer. -
Die Ursprünge des römischen Volkes
KORTE INHOUD
'The so-called Origo gentis Romanae (hereafter OGR), a critical exposition of the prehistory of Rome from Saturn's arrival in Italy through Romulus and Remus, survives with the De viris illustribus and Sextus Aurelius Victor's De Caesaribus in two fifteenth-century manuscripts, both perhaps copied from what was described by its owner, the sixteenth-century erudite Jean Matal, as a codex antiquissimus. OGR was first attributed to Victor, then pronounced a humanist forgery by Niebuhr, but the identity of the author of the OGR is now agreed to be beyond recovery, though he cannot be Victor or whoever produced the De viris illustribus or the compiler of the tripartite Corpus Aurelianum of which the OGR is the first segment. (...) Indeed, the translation, which has no literary pretensions, is of very high quality. This is no small feat, for the Latin of the OGR presents a range of challenges. (...) The Introduction first treats the schizophrenic character of the OGR - Part 1 (1.1-5.9) a sort of commentary on Vergi...
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2004Uitgever: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft176 paginasISBN-10: 3534164334ISBN-13: 9783534164332Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Darmstadt, 2004. 176p. Hardbound. Series: Texte zur Forschnung, Band 82. Nice copy.Antiquarian Titel: ORIGO GENTIS ROMANAE. Die Ursprünge des römischen Volkes. Herausgegeben, übersetzt, kommentiert und mit Essays versehen von M. Sehlmeyer.
'The so-called Origo gentis Romanae (hereafter OGR), a critical exposition of the prehistory of Rome from Saturn's arrival in Italy through Romulus and Remus, survives with the De viris illustribus and Sextus Aurelius Victor's De Caesaribus in two fifteenth-century manuscr...
'The so-called Origo gentis Romanae (hereafter OGR), a critical exposition of the prehistory of Rome from Saturn's arrival in Italy through Romulus and Remus, survives with the De viris illustribus and Sextus Aurelius Victor's De Caesaribus in two fifteenth-century manuscr...
