[German version]

(167 hexameters, attributed to  Tertullianus or  Cyprianus [2] in the MSS) belongs to a group of pseudonymous biblical poems normally dated to the 5th cent. The poem comes from the same pen as  De Iona , the content of which it extends; it tells the story of Lot and Sodom's destruction following Gen. 19,1-29. The poet uses mythological and geographical motifs (particularly a comparison with the Phaeton myth and curiosities about the Dead Sea).

 Biblical poetry;  De Iona

Roberts, Michael (Middletown, CT)