Carmen astrologicum elegiacum

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edition offers a collection and complete re-edition of the remains of the poem's original four books: published and unpublished papyri, plus fragments and testimonia preserved in the secondary tradition.

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"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

Product details

• Authors: Anubio, Anubio Poeta Astrologus, Anubio Poeta Astrologus, Anubio Poeta Astrologus
• Assisted by: Dir Obbink (Editor), Dirk Obbink (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
• Languages: Ancient Greek
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9783598712289
• ISBN: 978-3-598-71228-9
• No. of pages: 79
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 12 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 286 g
• Illustrations: 4 pages plate supplement
• Series: Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana; Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity