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Ciris - A Poem From the Appendix Vergiliana (Hardcover)
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Ciris - A Poem From the Appendix Vergiliana (Hardcover)
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The Ciris is a small scale epic poem which relates the myth of
Scylla, daughter of king Nisus of Megara, who betrayed her homeland
for love, and was transformed into a sea-bird. It is one of the
poems in the Appendix Vergiliana, a collection that has been
ascribed to Virgil as his carmina minora. Earlier scholarship has
mostly been concerned to prove that the Ciris is not by Virgil, and
then to demonstrate that it is a late and derivative composition of
little intrinsic merit. The present book argues that Ciris was
composed by a contemporary of Virgil, a product of the golden age
of Latin poetry. It aims to bring the poem to the attention of
modern readers and to rescue it from ill-deserved neglect. The
introduction presents detailed linguistic, literary and historical
arguments in support of this early composition date and offers a
state-of-the-art account of the textual witnesses and the
manuscript tradition. The critical text and apparatus are based on
a systematic, first-hand analysis of manuscript evidence as well as
the rigorous application of text-critical methods. The new text, as
close to the original Ciris as can be achieved, includes over
one-hundred and fifty changes from previous editions. By engaging
with textual scholarship on the poem from the fifteenth to the
twenty-first century, the line-by-line commentary provides a
comprehensive guide to the numerous textual problems, and is an
important contribution to the stylistic and linguistic analysis of
golden-age Latin poetry.
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