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1671 STATIUS Rome Mythology Achilles Thebaid Silva influenced Chaucer & Dante
1671 STATIUS Rome Mythology Achilles Thebaid Silva influenced Chaucer & Dante
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1671 STATIUS Rome Mythology Achilles Thebaid Silva influenced Chaucer & Dante



Papinius Statius was a 1st-century Roman poet remembered for his epic poems Thebaid, Silvae and Achilleid. These works tell famous stories of mythology and iconic heroes – namely Oedipus and Achilles. These poems were known to have had significant influence on Juvenal as well as into the 12th-century on Chaucer, Dante, and Boccaccio as well as Dryden and Grotius in the Renaissance.



This 1671 edition was published by Hackiana in Leiden, collected and edited by Johannes Veenhusen.



Item number: #20840

Price: $599



STATIUS, Publius Papinius



P. Papinii Statii Sylvarum lib. V. Thebaidos lib. XII. Achilleidos lib. II.



Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: ex officina Hackiana, 1671. First edition.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[32], 882, [30]

Includes engraved title page

Provenance: Armorial Bookplate – John Goodford

Likely John Goodford, Esq. (1784-1835), of Chilton Cantelo, Somerset. He was the father of Charles Old Goodford (1812–1884), an English headmaster and provost of Eton College.

Language: Latin

Binding: Leather; tight and secure

Size: ~7.75in X 4.75in (19.5cm x 12cm)



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