Astronomicon: Volume 4, Liber Quartus


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This volume contains the Latin text of the fourth book of Manilius, first published in 1920 and then reissued in a second edition in 1937.










M. Manilii Astronomicon Liber Quartus (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from M. Manilii Astronomicon Liber Quartus Every sign is divided into three parts consisting of 10 degrees each, so that the zodiac, with its 360 degrees, contains 36 of them. These 36 parts, beginning with the lt of Aries, are allotted to the dominion of the 12 signs, beginning with Aries himself, in regular succession and triple recurrence, so that each sign dominates three of them, and those three fall at the three angles of an equilateral triangle inscribed in the circle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.










A.E. Housman


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A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a man of many apparent contradictions, most of which remain unresolved 150 years after his birth. At once a deeply emotive lyric poet and a precise and dedicated classical scholar, he achieved fame in both of these diverse disciplines. Although his poetic legacy has received much scholarly analysis, and yet more attention has been devoted to reconstructing his private life, no previous work has focused on Housman the classical scholar; yet it is upon scholarship that Housman most wished to leave his mark. This timely collection of papers by leading scholars reassesses the breadth and significance of Housman's contribution to classical scholarship in both his published and unpublished writings, and discusses how his mantle has been passed on to later generations of classicists.










Author and Audience in Latin Literature


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Essays by distinguished scholars on the relationship between Latin authors and their audiences.