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Astronomicon: Volume 1, Liber Primus

M Manilii author A E Housman editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:18th Nov '11

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Astronomicon: Volume 1, Liber Primus cover

The Latin text of the first book of Manilius, originally published in 1903 and then reissued in a second edition in 1937.

A. E. Housman's five-volume critical edition of Marcus Manilius's Astronomicon has long been regarded as the definitive work on the subject. This volume contains the Latin text of the first book of Manilius, originally published in 1903, and then reissued in a second edition by the Cambridge University Press in 1937.A. E. Housman's five-volume critical edition of Marcus Manilius's Astronomicon has long been regarded as the definitive work on the subject. The task of bringing the edition together was one of considerable proportion which took Housman twenty-seven years to complete. It is now considered one of his most enduring and important contributions to scholarship. This volume contains the Latin text of the first book of Manilius, originally published in 1903, and then reissued in a second edition by the Cambridge University Press in 1937. It offers a short introductory note by Housman's friend and colleague at Trinity College, Cambridge, A. S. F. Gow, as well as a detailed introduction by Housman himself, tracing the manuscript history of the work and discussing particular challenges posed by the editorial process.

ISBN: 9780521169370

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm

Weight: 270g

204 pages

2nd Revised edition