GERMAN

Origo Gentis Romanae : Die Ursprünge des römischen Volkes

By Markus Sehlmeyer

Book information

Publisher
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft
Year
2004
ISBN
9783534164332, 3534164334
Language
german
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1979328 bytes)
Series
Texte zur Forschung 82
Pages
176\178
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2024-09-10 10:01:38
AntikeLiteraturgeschichteRömisches Reich

Description

The so-called Origo gentis Romanae (hereafter OGR), a critical exposition of the prehistory of Rome from Saturn’s arrival in Italy through Romulus and Remus, survives with the De viris illustribus and Sextus Aurelius Victor’s De Caesaribus in two fifteenth-century manuscripts, both perhaps copied from what was described by its owner, the sixteenth-century erudite Jean Matal, as a codex antiquissimus. OGR was first attributed to Victor, then pronounced a humanist forgery by Niebuhr, but the identity of the author of the OGR is now agreed to be beyond recovery, though he cannot be Victor or whoever produced the De viris illustribus or the compiler of the tripartite Corpus Aurelianum of which the OGR is the first segment.

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