Ilias Latina
Latin hexameter poem
The Ilias Latina is a short Latin hexameter version of the Iliad of Homer that gained popularity in Antiquity and remained popular through the Middle Ages. It was very widely studied and read in Medieval schools as part of the standard Latin educational curriculum. According to Ernest Robert Curtius, it is a "crude condensation", into 1070 lines.[1] It is attributed to Publius Baebius Italicus, said to be a Roman Senator, and to the decade 60 CE – 70 CE.[2] It includes at least two acrostic elements: the first lines spell out ITALICUS, while the last lines spell SCRIPSIT, taken together translating "Italicus wrote (it)."
See also
- Classical studies
References
Further reading
- Marco Scaffai, Baebii Italici Ilias Latina, Bologna, 1982.
- George A. Kennedy, The Latin Iliad. Introduction, Text, Translation, and Notes, 1998.
- Steven R. Perkins, Achilles In Rome: The Latin Iliad of Baebius Italicus, Introduction, Latin text, English translation, 2006.
- Maria Jennifer Falcone, Christoph Schubert, (eds.) Ilas Latina: Text, Interpretation, and Reception, Leiden, Brill, 2022.
- Italici Ilias latina, wyd. Fr. Plessis, Paris 1885.
External links
- Online Latin text with adjustable interlinear vocabulary
- Original Latin text online
- Translation of this work to Portuguese
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Homer's Iliad
- Dactylic hexameter
- Homeric scholarship
- Homeric Laughter
- Homeric Question
- Jørgensen's law
- Historicity of the Iliad
- "The Iliad or the Poem of Force" (1939 essay)
- Interpretation of Achilles' and Patroclus' relationship
- Milawata letter
- Parallels between Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
- Rediscovering Homer
- Ilias Latina (60–70 CE)
- Dictys Cretensis Ephemeridos belli Trojani (c. 4th century)
- Daretis Phrygii de excidio Trojae historia (5th century)
- Hermoniakos' Iliad (14th century)
- Men in Aida (1983)
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- Rhesus (5th century BC play)
- Troilus and Cressida (1602)
- The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (1935)
- The Golden Apple (1954 musical)
- Helena (1924)
- Helen of Troy (1956)
- The Trojan Horse (1961)
- Troy (2004)
- The Myth Makers (1965)
- In Search of the Trojan War (1985)
- Helen of Troy (2003 miniseries)
- Troy: Fall of a City (2018 miniseries)
- King Priam (1961 Tippett opera)
- The Triumph of Steel (1992 album)
- "And Then There Was Silence" (2001 song)
- Tabulae Iliacae
- Achilles and Briseis
- Andromache Mourning Hector
- The Anger of Achilles
- The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles
- The Apotheosis of Homer
- Jupiter and Thetis
- The Loves of Paris and Helen
- Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus
- Orestes Pursued by the Furies
- The Revelers Vase
- Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus
- Statue of Zeus at Olympia
- Warriors: Legends of Troy (video game)
- Age of Bronze (comics)
- Sortes Homericae
- Heraclitus
- Weighing of souls
- Where Troy Once Stood
- Blood rain