Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 5 : The Reception of Classical Literature
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Subject: Classical Studies
Edited by: Christine Walde
In collaboration with: Brigitte Egger
The Reception of Classical Literature , a Supplement to Brill’s New Pauly gives an overview of the reception and influence of ancient literary works on the literature, art and music from Antiquity to the present.
Subscriptions: See Brill.com
In collaboration with: Brigitte Egger
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The Reception of Classical Literature , a Supplement to Brill’s New Pauly gives an overview of the reception and influence of ancient literary works on the literature, art and music from Antiquity to the present.
Subscriptions: See Brill.com
Florus (Publius Annius Florus): Epitoma de Tito Livio
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A. Author Publius Annius Florus (also wrongly given as Lucius Annaeus F. in some MSS), was born after the middle of the 1st cent. AD (AD 70?) in the province of Africa, and died during the reign of Hadrian (some years before AD 140?). He took part in the Capitoline poetic agons of AD 86, 90 and 94, but on each occasion he lost to his fellow contestant, the Emperor Domitian. After years of a nomadic life as an orator, he finally settled down (between 97 and 101) to be a rhetoric teacher at Tarraco …