The Pervigilium Veneris
A New Critical Text, Translation and Commentary
This study provides a critical edition of the Pervigilium Veneris with a Latin text, translation and commentary. This late-antique poem, the 'Vigil of Venus', is of unknown date and authorship. It exists in four heavily corrupted manuscripts, including the Codex Salmasianus, as part of a collection of later Latin poetry compiled around the 6th Century AD. Considerable attention has been paid to the piece since its first edition in the 16th century, largely on account of its singularity, mysterious origins and enigmatic final stanza, in which the poet suddenly bursts into the piece lamenting his 'lost muse'. Despite this scholarly interest, m…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-04055-7
- EAN: 9781350040557
- Produktnummer: 27263590
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'887 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
William Michael Barton is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria. He was awarded his Master's degree at the University of Calgary. As a researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute he has focused on the appreciation of nature in Latin literature. He has recently submitted his PhD thesis on this topic.
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