What were the strategic factors that allowed Rome to absorb repeated body blows and to endure an enemy army in its homeland for more than a decade without succumbing?
Ovid: Metamorphoses. Manuscript: Italy 1380. MS Hunter 445 (V.5.15): Beginning of Book 2 (folio 20r) Ovid‘s vast Latin poem on the theme of transformation incorporates about 250 tales from Greek and Roman mythology. Of enduring popularity, it was widely read and well known in the medieval period. Many of Chaucer’s contemporaries would have been familiar with its stories via a fourteenth century French translation entitled the Ovide Moralisé. This allegorised version of the work imbued the stories with Christian overtones. Chaucer’s poetry is permeated by Ovidian allusions. Most famously, he adapts the story of Ceyx and Alcyone from Book Nine of the Metamorphoses in The Book of the Duchess, written to commemorate the death of Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster and wife of John of Gaunt. Shown to the left is the opening to Book Six which tells of Arachne’s transformation into a spider. As can be seen from the pages displayed below, some sections of the work have been very closely read and annotated by a fairly early reader. The manuscript was made in Italy and the colophon at the end of the volume states that the scribe completed writing it on the third of October, 1380.
Mythologus oder gesammelte Abhandlungen über die Sagen des Alterthums
Autor / Hrsg.: Buttmann, Philipp ; Buttmann, Philipp
Verlagsort: Berlin | Erscheinungsjahr: 1828 | Verlag: Mylius
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Reihe: Mythologus oder gesammelte Abhandlungen über die Sagen des Alterthums
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Robert Maltby, Tibullus: Elegies. Text, Introduction and Commentary. ARCA Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 41. Cambridge: Francis Cairns (Publications), 2002. Pp. xii, 529. ISBN 0-905205-99-5. $135.00.
(Steffens 71:) Quoduultdeus, Adversus quinque haereses ― Augustinus Hipponensis, De Genesi contra Manichaeos ; De fide et symbolo ; De fide contra Manicheos ; Collatio cum Maximino ; Contra Maximinum ― Augustinus Hipponensis (ps.), Collatio cum Pascentio -- 1029-1043 -- manuscrits
The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) is an evolving database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
C.A.L.M.A. (Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi) is a bibliographical repertory the aim of which is to provide complete bibliographical orientation for all authors who wrote in Latin during the period 500-1530 A.D. (approximately from Boethius to Erasmus).
Made in France, probably in Rheims, about 820-840, this manuscript has a copy of a famous poem on the constellations and planets. The result of several layers of translation and being added to, the po...
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Autor: Seeck, Otto
Titel: Das Leben des Dichters Porphyrius
Seitenangabe: 267-282
Bandangabe: 63
Jahrgang: 1908
Dokumenttyp: Aufsatz
Gesamttitel: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie
The Roman festival of the Lupercalia is one of the most discussed issues in the field of pre-Christian Roman religion. Hardly a year goes by without an article on the subject appearing in a major Classics journal. But the festival presents a range of issues that individual articles cannot address.