Dracontius, Blossius Aemilius 5th cent
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- stoa0110b
- CITE id:
- urn:cite:perseus:author.535
- Stoa id:
- stoa0110b
- Alt id:
- LCCN n 79128938
- Name:
- Dracontius, Blossius Aemilius 5th cent
- Abbr:
- Dracont.
- Alt names:
- Draconcio
Draconzio
Drakoncjusz
Dracontius
Dracont.
- Field of activity:
- Poet
- Notes:
- Marino, R. Concordanze della Orestis tragoedia di Draconzio, c1981:
t.p. (Draconzio)
His Åuvres, 1985- : v. 1, t.p. (Dracontius) p. 8 (full name:
Blossius Aemilius Dracontius)
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol 1,
1867, p. 1073: "Dracontius, a Christian poet, of whose personal history we know nothing, except that he was
a Spanish presbyter, flourished during the fifth century, and died about A.D. 450. His chief production
entitled Hexaemeron, in heroic measure, extending to 575 lines, contains a description of the six days of the creation..."
Brill's New Pauly: "Latin poet of senatorial origin (vir clarissimus) of
the late 5th cent. AD, advocate in Carthage
in a secure position and already recognized as
a poet through his recitals, he composed (in 484?) a (lost) poetical Panegyricus to a
foreign ruler, probably the Byzantine Emperor Zeno, whose efforts to help the Catholic
Romans under the domination of the Arian vandals were well known....".
- Author info:
- VIAF
- Wikipedia
- Worldcat Identities
- Smith's Dictionary
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Carmina (Carmina Profana/Carmina Minora/Romulea)
