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Incerti Auctoris Aetna
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Series: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Book 2
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ISBN10: 0521604346
ISBN13: 9780521604345
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 20 2004
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780521604345
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 20 2004
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
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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