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Item Details
| Title:
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INCERTI AUCTORIS AETNA
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| By: |
F. R. D. Goodyear |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£12.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521051185 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521051187 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
2 January, 1966 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries |
| Pages: |
252 |
| Description: |
This edition provides a reliable text of the Aetna, a didactic poem about volcanic activity. |
| Synopsis: |
The Aetna is something of a curiosity: a didactic poem on the nature and causes of volcanic activity. In antiquity it was ascribed by some to Virgil; modern scholars reject this and, although unable to agree upon a date, favour the first century A.D. The text itself presents many problems in reading and interpretation, arising partly from corruptions in the manuscripts, partly from obscurities in the subject-matter. These difficulties are increased by the nature of the author's style: it is terse and elliptical, and at the same time loaded with scientific detail and mythological allusion. Dr Goodyear's edition provides a long introduction, a text with critical apparatus, a commentary, bibliography and indexes. The text is more reliable than any published hitherto. |
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