Hosidius Geta
Hosidius Geta was a Roman poet who was active around the year 200 AD. According to the testimony of his contemporary Tertullian ( De Prescriptione Haereticorum 42), he wrote a tragedy called Medea , which consisted of Centons of Virgil . This means that the text is composed almost exclusively of quotations from Virgilians (verses and verses).
In the Codex Salmasianus , besides other Virgilcentons, there is also a Medea in 461 verses which, according to research, is identical to the work mentioned. The Cento technique is not masterful, the text contains numerous violations of the rules of metric , prosody and syntax .
Editions
- Giovanni Salanitro (Ed.): Osidio Geta, Medea . Rome 1981.
- Hosidius Geta: Medea. Text, Translation, and Commentary [Latin-Italian with English Summaries], ed. by Maria Teresa Galli. Vertumnus. Berlin Contributions to Classical Philology and its Neighboring Areas, Volume 10, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8469-0121-2
literature
- Wilhelm Kroll : Hosidius 3 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII, 2, Stuttgart 1913, Col. 2489 f.
- Rosa Lamacchia: Hosidii Getae Medea: cento Vergilianus . Leipzig 1981 ( Bibliotheca Teubneriana , authoritative text edition)
- Anke Rondholz: The Versatile Needle. Hosidius Geta's Cento Medea and Its Tradition . Berlin 2012.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hosidius Geta in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hosidius Geta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | roman poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century |