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Astronomicon

Liber Quintus

Astronomicon( )
Author: Manilius, Marcus
Editor: Housman, A. E.
Series title:Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-511-84180-4
Publication Date:Mar 2012
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
List Price:AUD $110.00
Book Description:

A. E. Housman's immensely erudite edition of Manilius' five-volume Latin poem on the influence of the stars and the zodiac on human affairs was published between 1903 and 1930, and remains the authoritative text. Volume 5 (which is unfinished) describes the non-zodiacal signs and their influence.

Author Biography
Manilius, Marcus (Author)
A. E. Housman was born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England on March 26, 1859. In 1877, he attended St. John's College, Oxford and received first class honours in classical moderations. He worked as clerk in the Patent Office in London for ten years. During this time he studied Greek and Roman classics intensively, and in 1892 was appointed professor of Latin at University College, London. In 1911 he became professor of Latin at Trinity College, Cambridge, a post he held until his death.

He only published two volumes of poetry during his lifetime: A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems. He died on April 30, 1936. A third volume, More Poems, was released posthumously in 1936 by his brother as was an edition of Housman's Complete Poems in 1939.

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