Avienius

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Template:Short description Template:DMCA 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:

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I dine, drink, sing, play, bathe, sup, rest.[11]

However this quote is a misattribution and likely comes from the works of Martial.[12]

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
  • Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.A. Cameron (1995). "Avienus or Avienius?" (PDF). Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 108: 252–262. Retrieved 13 December 2006.
  • 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

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cameron, Alan (1995). "Avienus or Avienius?" (PDF). Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 108: 252–262. JSTOR 20189613.
  2. ^ Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire vol. 1 p. 336
  3. ^ Rita Lizzi Testa, Senatori, popolo, papi: il governo di Roma al tempo dei Valentiniani (Bari, 2004), p. 274
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shipley, D.; Graham, J. (2024). "Avienus (Avienius), Ora Maritima (The Sea Coast)". Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Selected Texts in Translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 889–920.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dolan, Marion (22 August 2017). Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts. Springer. p. 34. ISBN 9783319567846.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Matthews, John (September 1967). "Continuity in a Roman Family; The Rufii Festi of Volsinii". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 16 (4). Franz Steiner Verlag: 484–509. JSTOR 4435006.
  7. ^ Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, "Avienius", p. 187
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ "Avienus, Rufus Festus" The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology, Timothy Darvil, ed.. (Oxford University Press) 2002
  10. ^ PLRE I, p. 336
  11. ^ As recorded in a poem once erroneously attributed to him; English translation by Richard Lovelace.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Baehrens, Emil (1879). Poetae latini minores. PIMS - University of Toronto. Lipsiae : In aedibus B.G. Teubneri.

Further reading

  • Alan Cameron, "Macrobius, Avienus, and Avianus" The Classical Quarterly New Series, 17.2 (November 1967), pp 385–399.

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