Incerti Auctoris Aetna
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
ISBN-10
0521604346
ISBN-13
9780521604345
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 20th, 2004
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
336 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.60 x 1.80 cms
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Literary studies: ancient, classical and medievalLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval
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The Aetna is a didactic poem on the nature and causes of volcanic activity, orginally ascribed to Virgil but now assumed to have been written in the first century A.D. The edition provides a long introduction, a reliable text with critical apparatus, a commentary, bibliography and indexes.
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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