P. Annio Floro, Virgilio: Oratore O Poeta?; Introduzione, Testo Critico, Traduzione E Commento (Issn) (Italian Edition) (Issn, 65)

Florus dialogue, of which only a fragment survives, dealt with the scholastic issue of whether Virgil was an orator or a poet. The preserved section contains the setting of the story in a temple in Tarragona, an account of Florus travels through the Roman Empire and a lively defense of the beauty of teaching which contradicts the prejudices of the time. The present volume offers the first comprehensive commentary on the dialogic fragment. "Florus' dialogue, of which only a fragment survives, dealt with the literary issue of whether Virgil, who had already been a canonical author in the Roman school for decades, was an orator or a poet. The preserved section contains the setting of the story in a temple in Tarragona (temple of Augustus), an account of Florus' travels through the Roman empire and a lively defence of the beauty of teaching against the prejudices of the time. The volume includes an extensive introduction, which provides information about the author (onomastics and biography) and the work itself (history of the text, genre, dating, prose of art, intertextuality, and reception), a new critical text, an Italian translation, and the first comprehensive commentary on the dialogic fragment." -- Font no determinada The series publishes important new editions of and commentaries on texts from Greco-Roman antiquity, especially annotated editions of texts surviving only in fragments. Due to its programmatically wide range the series provides an essential basis for the study of ancient literature Premessa 7 Indice 11 Introduzione 13 Conspectus: codex, editores, critici 51 Testo critico e traduzione a fronte 52 Commento 59 Bibliografia 163 Index locorum 181