Anubion
Anubion ( Greek Ἀνουβίων Anubíōn , Latin Anubio ) is the author of a Greek, fragmentary astrological didactic poem. Presumably he came from the Egyptian Thebes and lived in the late 1st century.
The author's name is of Egyptian origin; According to an ancient testimony (a sermon wrongly attributed to Clemens of Rome ) he is said to have been in close contact with Simon Magus . Otherwise little is known about him.
The didactic poem, originally comprising four books, contains an introduction to astrology and horoscopes and is unusually written in elegiac distiches . It extends today's knowledge of the ancient genre of the astrological didactic poem, to which the Phainomena des Arat , the Astronomica of Manilius and the astrological parts of Fasti Ovids belong.
The longer prose paraphrase of a later excerptor , some verses from the indirect tradition (including from the Apotelesmatica ascribed to Manetho ) and several new, published and unpublished papyri from the Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection in Oxford have been preserved . On the basis of these new discoveries, the papyrologist Dirk Obbink published the editio princeps of the poem in 2006 , which also lists quotations and testimony of ancient authors. Firmicus Maternus receives the poem of Anubion in his Mathesis in such a detailed way that his text is an essential aid in the reconstruction of the papyrus fragments .
Editions and translations
- Dirk Obbink (Ed.): Anoubion, Elegiacs . In: The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Vol. 66, No. 4503-7, Egypt Exploration Society, London 1999, 67-109.
- Dirk Obbink (Ed.): Anubio: Carmen astrologicum elegiacum ( Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana ). Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, ISBN 3-598-71228-6 ( excerpt from Google Books ; review by Roger Beck, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review , September 28, 2007 ).
- Paul Schubert (Ed.): Anoubion: Poème astrologique. Témoignages and fragments. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-251-00601-7 (critical edition with French translation)
literature
- Ernst Riess : Annubion . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2321 f.
- Franz Cumont : Annubion . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplement volume I, Stuttgart 1903, column 87.
Remarks
- ↑ Ps.Clem.Rom. Hom. IV 6, Patr. Gr. 2.161B, p. 85-86 Rehm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anubion |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Anoubion; Anubio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek astrological poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century or 2nd century |