Astronomicon - Volume 5
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
ISBN-10
1108037968
ISBN-13
9781108037969
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 19th, 2011
Print length
254 Pages
Weight
336 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 13.80 x 1.80 cms
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A. E. Housman's immensely erudite edition of Manilius' five-volume Latin poem on the influence of the stars and the zodiac on human affairs was published between 1903 and 1930, and remains the authoritative text. Volume 5 (which is unfinished) describes the non-zodiacal signs and their influence.
Both the author and the date of this five-volume poem, the first Western document to link the houses of the zodiac with the course of human affairs, are uncertain. The author's name may be Marcus Manilius, or Manlius, or Mallius, and the latest datable event mentioned in the books themselves is the disastrous defeat of Varus' Roman legions by the German tribes in 9 CE. The writing shows knowledge of the work of Lucretius, but the work is not referred to by any subsequent writer, suggesting that it was never widely disseminated. A manuscript was rediscovered by Poggio Bracciolini in 1416 or 1417, and editions were produced by Scaliger and Bentley, but this immensely erudite edition of 1903–1930 by the scholar and poet A. E. Housman (1859–1936) is regarded as authoritative. Volume 5 (which is unfinished) describes the non-zodiacal signs and their influence.
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