Flavii Cresconii Corippi Iohannidos Seu del Bellis Libycis Libri 8

Name: Flavii Cresconii Corippi Iohannidos Seu del Bellis Libycis Libri 8
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ISBN: 9780521076265

ISBN-10: 0521076269

ISBN-13: 9780521076265

Edition: 1970

Authors: James Diggle, F. R. Goodyear

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The Iohannis, an epic poem of the mid-sixth century, narrates the wars of a Roman general against Berber rebels in north Africa. The subject-matter is of considerable interest both for the history of the period and for what it reveals of the ethnography of north Africa in late antiquity. The poem is also of literary interest because of its numerous debts to earlier Latin poetry. It is in the establishment of a reliable text, however, in the field emendatio, that the importance of this 1970 edition lies. The editors have purged the text so far as possible from error; and in their numerous conjectures they have had to decide what abnormalities should be ascribed to the changed Latinity of the…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1970
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.924



Flavii Cresconii Corippi Iohannidos seu De bellis Libycis libri VIII