Granius Licinianus

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Granius Licinianus (active in the 2nd century AD) was a Roman author of historical and encyclopedic works that survive only in fragments. He most likely lived at the time of Hadrian.[1]

History

Granius compiled a "novel"

Add. 17212)[7]

Granius also wrote Cenae Suae ("My Dinner Parties"), an encyclopedic work that displayed his antiquarian interests in the manner of Aulus Gellius and his Attic Nights.[8]

Editions

  • K.A. Pertz (1857), editio princeps;[9] downloadable.
  • Seven Bonn students (1858)
  • M. Flemisch, Granius Licinianus. Eine text-, sprach- und quellenkritische Untersuchung (1899/1900, 1902, 1904)
  • See also JN Madvig, Kleine philologische Schriften (1875)
  • N. Criniti (Leipzig, 1981). For introduction, critical commentary (in Italian), and full bibliography, see also Criniti's "Granio Liciniano," Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.34.1 (1993), pp. 120–, limited preview online.

Commentary

  • Italian translation and commentary by B. Scardigli, with A. R. Berardi (Florence, 1983).

References

  1. ^ Gian Biagio Conte, Latin Literature: A History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 1994), p. 551 online.
  2. ^ Michael von Albrecht, A History of Roman Literature (Brill, 1994, 1997), p. 864.
  3. ^ Conte, Latin Literature, p. 551; Erich S. Gruen, The Last Generation of the Roman Republic (University of California Press, 1974, 1995), p. 16.
  4. H.J. Rose
    , A Handbook of Latin Literature (Routledge, 1936, 1996), p. 219.
  5. ^ Rose, Handbook, pp. 29 and 514; Rose rejects the identification, mainly promulgated in the 19th century.
  6. ^ Christoph F. Konrad, Plutarch's Sertorius: A Historical Commentary pp. lii and 69.
  7. ^ Ralph W. Mathisen, "Paleography and Codicology," in The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 148.
  8. ^ Conte, Latin Literature, p. 551.
  9. ^ Arnaldo Momigliano, "Jacob Bernays," in A.D. Momigliano: Studies on Modern Scholarship (University of California Press, 1994), p. 130.
  • Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Licinianus, Granius" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 587.

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