The Loeb Classical Library: Saturnalia, Volume I : Books 1–2

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The Loeb Classical Library: Saturnalia, Volume I : Books 1–2The Saturnalia, Macrobius encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a dialogue, the Saturnalia treats subjects as diverse as the divinity of the Sun and the quirks of human digestion while showcasing Virgil as the master of all human knowledge from diction and rhetoric to philosophy and religion. The new

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skilfully captured in this translation

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and circulated in written form soon afterwards

and likewise in prose and verse

Apparently he and a Greek Timotheus did much to establish the cult of Serapis in Egypt

was the foremost orator in the classical world in the first century AD

Thus the reader observes Cicero at work in both constructive and skeptical modes as well as his art of characterizing speakers

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and in touch with most of the protagonists in the confused scenario

a one-eyed ogre and a six-headed serpent lie in wait - not to mention sinister sirens