Lucius Ampelius

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Lucius Ampelius was a school author of the Roman Empire and the author of a textbook on ancient mythology , geography and history, the Liber memorialis .

Ampelius is only known as the author of this teaching work. When he lived is uncertain. Most assumptions vary between the reign of Trajan (98–117 AD) and the time of Constantine (306–337 AD). His manual contains 50 chapters, drawn from good sources, of the school knowledge of his time up to the reign of Trajan. The only surviving manuscript (Codex Divionensis) is lost today. The text that is still preserved goes back to a copy by the French humanist Salmasius . Eduard Wölfflin wrote his doctoral thesis on liber memorialis in 1854 and also published the first critical text edition in 1873.

Text output

  • Ingemar König (Ed.): Lucius Ampelius: Liber memorialis - What a young Roman should know (= texts on research 94). 2nd edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24594-9 (with introduction, translation and explanations)

literature

  • Michèle Ducos: Ampelius (Lucius) . In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques , Vol. 1, CNRS, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-222-04042-6 , pp. 171-173
  • Peter Lebrecht Schmidt : L. Ampelius, Liber memorialis. In: Reinhart Herzog (ed.): Restoration and renewal. The Latin literature from 284 to 374 AD (= Handbook of the Latin Literature of Antiquity , Volume 5). CH Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-31863-0 , pp. 175-177.
  • Marie-Pierre Arnaud-Lindet: Le Liber memorialis de L. Ampelius. In: Wolfgang Haase , Hildegard Temporini (Hrsg.): Rise and decline of the Roman world . Department II, Volume 34.3: Language and Literature: Individual authors since the Hadrian era and general information on the literature of the 2nd and 3rd centuries. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1997, ISBN 3-11-015700-4 , pp. 2301-2312.

Web links

Wikisource: Lucius Ampelius  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ^ Munich, Bavarian State Library, clm 10383.
personal data
SURNAME Ampelius, Lucius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman school author
DATE OF BIRTH between 1st century and 5th century
DATE OF DEATH between 2nd century and 5th century