Avienius
Template:Short description Template:Dmy Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Postumius Rufius Festus Avienius[1][2][3] (or Avienus[4]) was a Latin writer of the 4th century AD. He was a native of Volsinii in Etruria,[5] from the distinguished family of the Rufii Festi.[6]
Avienius is not identical with the historian Festus.[7]
Background
Avienius made a free translation into Latin of Aratus' didactic poem Phaenomena. He also took a popular Greek poem in hexameters, Periegesis, briefly delimiting the habitable world from the perspective of Alexandria, written by Dionysius Periegetes in a terse and elegant style that was easy to memorize for students, and translated it into an archaising Latin as his Descriptio orbis terrae ("Description of the World's Lands"). Only Book I survives, with an unsteady grasp of actual geography and some far-fetched etymologies: see Ophiussa.
He wrote Ora Maritima, a poem claimed to contain borrowings from the 6th-century BC Massiliote Periplus.[8][9] Avienius also served as governor of Achaia and Africa.[10]
According to legend, when asked what he did in the country, he answered Prandeo, poto, cano, ludo, lavo, caeno,Template:Typo help inline quiesco:
Template:Main otherHowever this quote is a misattribution and likely comes from the works of Martial.[11]
Editions
- A. Berthelot: Script error: No such module "Lang".. Paris 1934. (text of reference)
- J. P. Murphy: Script error: No such module "Lang". or Description of the seacoast. (Chicago) 1977.
- J. Soubiran: Script error: No such module "Lang".. CUF, Paris 1981. (text of reference)
- D. Stichtenoth: Script error: No such module "Lang".. Darmstadt 1968. (the Latin text is that of the editio princeps of 1488 and is better not cited)
- P. van de Woestijne: Script error: No such module "Lang".. Brugge 1961. (text of reference)
- Commentaries, monographs and articles
- F. Bellandi, E. Berti und M. Ciappi: Script error: No such module "Lang".. 96 - 139 e Avieno Arati Phaen. 273 - 352), Pisa 2001
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- Script error: No such module "Lang".. Curavit Manfred WACHT. G. Olms Verlag 1995
- M. Fiedler: Script error: No such module "Lang".. Stuttgart Saur 2004
- C. Ihlemann: Script error: No such module "Lang".. Diss. Göttingen 1909
- H. Kühne: Script error: No such module "Lang".. Essen 1905
- K. Smolak: Script error: No such module "Lang".. In: Script error: No such module "Lang".
- D. Weber: Script error: No such module "Lang".. Dissertationen der Universität Wien 173, Wien 1986
- L. Willms Script error: No such module "Lang". AKAN-Einzelschriften – Antike Naturwissenschaften und ihre Rezeption, vol. 8. Trier WVT 2014
- P. van de Woestijne: Script error: No such module "Lang".. 1959
- H. Zehnacker: Script error: No such module "Lang".. Illinois Classical Studies 44 (1989), S. 317-329
References
Further reading
- Alan Cameron, "Macrobius, Avienus, and Avianus" The Classical Quarterly New Series, 17.2 (November 1967), pp 385–399.
External links
- Ortelius' bibliography: notes of cartographers
- Ora maritima and Periegesis in Latin, at The Latin Library
- Introduction and e-text of the "Description" (in French)
- English translation of Ora maritima by Ralph Morley (2018) in ToposText.org.
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- ↑ Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire vol. 1 p. 336
- ↑ Rita Lizzi Testa, Senatori, popolo, papi: il governo di Roma al tempo dei Valentiniani (Bari, 2004), p. 274
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- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, "Avienius", p. 187
- ↑ Donnchadh Ó Corráin Chapter 1 "Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland", in The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland, R.L. Foster, ed. (Oxford University Press) 2000 Template:ISBN
- ↑ "Avienus, Rufus Festus" The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology, Timothy Darvil, ed.. (Oxford University Press) 2002
- ↑ PLRE I, p. 336
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