Carmen astrologicum elegiacum rec. Dirk Obbink. Monachii et Lipsiae: K. G. Saur, 2006. BT

Diese editio princeps eines griechischen Gedichtes über Astrologie basiert auf neuen Papyrusfunden. Durch die Clementina ist uns der Autor für seine engen Kontakte zu Simon Magus bekannt. Das Werk ist ein Handbuch in Versen, das Horoskope und eine Einführung in die Astrologie beinhaltet. Es ist das einzige griechische astrologische Gedicht im elegischen Versmaß und erweitert unser Corpus von Lehrgedichten in der Tradition von Aratus, Manilius und von Ovids Fasti. Die Ausgabe stellt die Fragmente des ursprünglich vier Bücher umfassenden Gedichtes zusammen. Sie beinhaltet publizierte und unpublizierte Papyri sowie Zitate und Testimonien antiker Autoren. The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849, has evolved into the world's most venerable and extensive series of editions of Greek and Latin literature, ranging from classical to Neo-Latin texts. Some 4-5 new editions are published every year. A team of renowned scholars in the field of Classical Philology acts as advisory board: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)Marcus Deufert (Universität Leipzig)James Diggle (University of Cambridge)Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley)Franco Montanari (Università di Genova)Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)Dirk Obbink (University of Oxford)Oliver Primavesi (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)Michael D. Reeve (University of Cambridge)Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard University) Formerly out-of-print editions are offered as print-on-demand reprints. Furthermore, all new books in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana series are published as eBooks. The older volumes of the series are being successively digitized and made available as eBooks.If you are interested in ordering an out-of-print edition, which hasn't been yet made available as print-on-demand reprint, please contact us: Tessa.Jahn@degruyter.com All editions of Latin texts published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana are collected in the online database BTL Online.

This is the editio princeps, based on new papyrus discoveries, of a Greek poem on astrology by an author whose notorious collaborations with Simon Magus is novelistically recounted in the Clementina. A versified handbook of horoscopes and introduction to the sciences, it is the only Greek astrological poem to have been written in elegiac couplets, and ist a new accession to the corpus of didactic poetry in the tradition of Aratus' Phaenomena, Manilius' Astronomica, and Ovid's Fasti. The edition offers a collection and complete re-edition of the remains of the poem's original four books: published and unpublished papyri, plus fragments and testimonia preserved in the secondary tradition.