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The Aegritudo Perdicae, Edited With Translation And Commentary, John Mortimer Hunt Jr.
The Aegritudo Perdicae, Edited With Translation And Commentary, John Mortimer Hunt Jr.
Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses
The text of the Aegritudo Perdicae (a Latin epyllion in 290 hexameters, of uncertain date [perhaps fifth century A.D.] and authorship) depends on one fifteenth-century manuscript whose errors are multitudinous. From its editio princeps in 1877 to the present time, this difficult poem has received three editions and occasional snippets of exegesis, but otherwise little published work.
The present dissertation includes a completely reconstituted text and apparatus criticus, with translation and commentary. The author proposes the following emendations: 7. aliisque, 67. et, 126. Oedipoden, 133. discusserat, 231. peruenitque, 249. sed quae (for the gloss iussisti …
Studies In The Hellenistic Sculpture Of The Island Of Rhodes, Gloria S. Merker
Studies In The Hellenistic Sculpture Of The Island Of Rhodes, Gloria S. Merker
Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses
The study of Hellenistic sculpture is often based upon its division into local schools centering around Pergamon, Alexandria and Rhodes. The underlying premise of the present study is that if a distinctly Rhodian Hellenistic school of sculpture existed, it should be possible to define its characteristics by means of a study of the extant sculpture of known Rhodian provenance, supplemented by the preserved statue bases. If it is not possible to demonstrate recurring technical, iconographic and stylistic traits within the Rhodian material, it may be assumed that the theory of regional schools should not be applied to Rhodes.
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