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Carmen Astrologicum Elegiacum

Carmen Astrologicum Elegiacum

Obbink, Dirk
Anubio Poeta Astrologus

Hardcover

Series: Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana, Book 1228

General Poetry

ISBN10: 3598712286
ISBN13: 9783598712289
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Dec 19 2006
Pages: 89
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.79 Depth: 8.61
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

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The edition offers a collection and complete re-edition of the remains of the poem's original four books: published and unpublished papyri, plus fragments and testimonia preserved in the secondary tradition.

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