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Summary. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70–19 bce) was a Latin poet, already celebrated in his own lifetime, who wrote during the triumviral period and the principate of Augustus. All his poems reflect on contemporary history while engaging with a range of literary traditions from the archaic to the contemporary neoteric.
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Jul 26, 2022 · The Oxford classical dictionary. Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition of this established dictionary of antiquity offers over 6,700 entries on all aspects of the classical world, with reception and anthropology as new focus areas. Additional subject areas are politics, government, and the economy; religion and mythology; law and ...
Oxford Classical Dictionary – Abbreviations List Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th Edition Abbreviations List A. General abr. abridged/abridgement adesp. adespota Akkad. Akkadian app. appendix app. crit. apparatus criticus Aeol. Aeolic art. article Att. Attic b. born Bab. Babylonian beg. at/nr. beginning bibliog. bibliography bk. book c. circa
Published online: 30 July 2015. Subjects. Greek Literature. The existence of a poet called Homer was accepted throughout Antiquity, but the restriction of the Homeric corpus to the Iliad and the Odyssey became acknowledged only in the 520s. Before this date, it included the Epic Cycle , all the Homeric Hymns , and two mock-epics, the Margites ...
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The abbreviations for these are usually printed with a lower-case initial (e.g. anth., poet., trag.). In the indication of date Roman numerals refer to centuries. In the description of Editions used OCT, T, and L refer to Oxford Classical Texts (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis), Bibliotheca Tuebneriana, and the Loeb Classical ...
