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THREE AMUSEMENTS
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| By: |
Decimus Magnus Ausonius, David Slavitt (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£16.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0812234723 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780812234725 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 1998 |
| Pages: |
84 |
| Translated from: |
Latin |
| Description: |
A selection of the work of the fourth century poet Ausonius which has been translated into English. It includes COMMEMORATIONS OF THE PROFESSORS OF BORDEAUX and versions of NUPTIAL CENTO as well as selected epigrams. |
| Synopsis: |
Ausonius, the most famous of the learned poets active in the second half of the fourth century, was born at Bordeaux and taught school there for thirty years before being summoned to court to teach the future emperor Gratian. He subsequently held important public offices, returning to Bordeaux and private life after Gratian's death in 383. The subjects of many of his poems are typical of the academic world of the time. His Commemorations of the Professors of Bordeaux, a sequence of light verse obituaries of local teachers, in which people are honored - or gossiped about - in their daily occupations, has been called an illustrious poetic precedent to Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology. To a literary verse translation of the Commemorations, David Slavitt has added versions of Ausonius's Nuptial Cento, assembled from snippets of Shakespeare (Ausonius's original is a pastiche of Virgil) and selected epigrams. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Pennsylvania Press |
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Non-returnable |
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