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Saturnalia, Volume I: Books 1-2 - Macrobius, and Kaster, Robert A. (Edited and translated by)
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An antiquarian's festival. The Saturnalia, Macrobius' encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a dialogue, the Saturnalia treats subjects as diverse as the divinity of the Sun and the quirks of human digestion while showcasing Virgil as the master of all human knowledge from diction and rhetoric to philosophy and religion. The new Latin text is based on a refined understanding ...

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Saturnalia, Volume I: Books 1-2 2011, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass

ISBN-13: 9780674996496

Hardcover