MACROBIUS

məkrōˈbēəs, fl. c.430, Latin writer and philosopher. His Saturnalia, a dialogue in seven books chiefly concerned with a literary evaluation of Vergil, incorporates valuable quotations from other writers. He also wrote a commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio, which was popular in the Middle Ages and influenced Chaucer.

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Macrobius ; B Or, Philosophy, Science and Letters in the Year 400
Book by Thomas Whittaker; 1923
Subjects: Philosophy, Ancient
...give them their vogue. The doctrine of Macrobius and of Boethius was essentially the same, though Macrobius was a pagan and Boethius perhaps compiled...philosophical work, Boethius is as silent as Macrobius about Christianity: the difference is...
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Suicide in the Middle Ages
Book by Alexander Murray; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Church And Social Problems, Social History--Medieval, 500-1500, Suicide--History
...edited exposition of Plotinus teaching Macrobius adds one last, this time authentically...opportunity for more purification. You may say Macrobius allows, that the soul already perfectly...adherents into serious trouble. But Macrobius was not a Christian, and- probably...
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Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism: The Latin Tradition - Vol. 2
Book by Ralph McInerny, Stephen Gersh; University of Notre Dame Press, 1986
Subjects: Neoplatonism--Influence, Philosophy, Medieval, Plato--Influence
7 Macrobius 7.1 INTRODUCTION With Macrobius, the author of two works of the greatest interest to mediaevalists...presence of dox ____________________ 1 Since Macrobius was one of the most widely read pagan authors during the Middle...
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Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity
Book by Polymnia Athanassiadi, Michael Frede; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Monotheism--History, Rome--Religion
...This could in fact be the reason why Macrobius gave him a speech which stands out in...in the genre of literary dialogue. Macrobius wrote another encyclopaedic work in the...extent the two books are complementary: Macrobius would seem to have avoided treating the...
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Greek Mythography in the Roman World
Book by Alan Cameron; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Latin Literature--Greek Influences, Latin Literature--History And Criticism, Mythology, Greek, In Literature, Mythology, Greek--Historiography, Rome--Civilization--Greek Influences
...Three of the next four chap- ters in Macrobius contain a similar abundance of Greek...scholia.68 The natural assumption is that Macrobius and Donatus (or perhaps already Asper...treating Vergils knowledge of Greek, which Macrobius copied more or less complete while the...
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journal articles on: Macrobius  - 68 results

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Planetary Diagrams for Roman Astronomy in Medieval Europe, Ca. 800-1500
Journal article by Bruce Eastwood, Gerd Braßhoff; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 94, 2004
Subjects: Astronomy, Europe, European history, Middle Ages, Research & development--R&D, Teaching
...These were Plinys Natural History, Macrobius Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, Martianus...diagram for planetary order accompanying Macrobius Commentary on the Dream of Scipio (ca...sphere, as an aid to a text in which Macrobius himself remarked that a diagram often...
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Evocatio Deorum and the Date of Mark
Journal article by John S. Kloppenborg; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 124, 2005
Subjects: Exegesis & hermeneutics, Jesus Christ, Judaism, Mark, Saint (Apostle), Mosques & temples, New Testament
...12.841-42),55 and especially Macrobius, who gives an account of the carmen...vobis templa ludosque facturum). (Macrobius, Saturnalia 3.9.7-8) After the...Closely associated with the evocatio, says Macrobius, is another rite, the devotio, by...
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Dodgson's Dark Conceit: Evoking the Allegorical Lineage of Alice
Journal article by Andrew R. Wheat; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 61, 2009
Subjects: Alice in Wonderland (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Works, Carroll, Lewis--Criticism and interpretation, Carroll, Lewis--Works, Writers--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works
...they descend into the world of matter (Macrobius 135). The structure of the cosmos...on medieval allegorical tradition), Macrobius distinguishes between several different...afterwards have no importance or meaning. (Macrobius 89) (Alices adventure, it will be...
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Literary Practice in Eleventh-Century Music Theory: The Colores Rhetorici and Aribo's De Musica
Journal article by T.J.H. Mccarthy; Medium Aevum, Vol. 71, 2002
Subjects: German history, Germany--History, Literature--11th century AD, Literature--History, Music theory--11th century AD, Music theory--History
...works included part of the second book of Macrobius Commentarius in somnium Scipionis, excerpts...material. He supplemented the abbreviated Macrobius by adding parts not found in the proto...Barker-Benfield, `The manuscripts of Macrobius Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis...
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Dividing the Ocean Sea [*
Journal article by Martin W. Lewis; Vol. 89, 1999
Subjects: Geographical research--History, Geography--History, Hydrography--History, Physical geography--History
...were three writers of late antiquity: Macrobius, Orosius, and Martianus Capella, all...bounded by Ocean (Kimble 1938, 8, 20). Macrobius and Capella, following Crates, postulated...these continents resulted, according to Macrobius, in the tidal flux (Macrobius 1952...
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magazine articles on: Macrobius  - 4 results

 
 
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The Medieval Antipodes
Magazine article by Alison Peden; History Today, Vol. 45, December 1995
Subjects: Geographical myths--History, Geography, Historical--History, Middle Ages--History
...antique works of Martianus Capella and Macrobius, both written in the early fifth century...the chief source of such doctrines as Macrobius, who, in his Commentary on Ciceros...rarely made any express criticism of Macrobius views on the antipodes. Perhaps the...
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By Jove! It's Christmas: Did the First Christian Roman Emperor Appropriate the Pagan Festival of Saturnalia to Celebrate the Birth of Christ? Matt Salusbury Weighs the Evidence
Magazine article by Matt Salusbury; History Today, Vol. 59, December 2009
Subjects: Ancient Roman civilization, Christmas--History, Constantine I, Emperor of Rome--History, Paganism--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
...other pagan festivals, the Saturnalia continued to be celebrated in the century afterward. The poet Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius wrote another Saturnalia, describing a banquet of pagan literary celebrities in Rome during the festival. Classicists date...
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Love Poems, Letters and Remedies of Ovid
Magazine article by A.M. Juster; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 2011
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Love Poems, Letters and Remedies of Ovid (Collection)--Book reviews
...series, Susanna Braund has written a superb new prose version of Juvenals Satires and Robert Kaster has done the same for Macrobius Saturnalia. Harvards new imprints for medieval and Renaissance literature are already spurring important scholarship. It...
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Reflections on Intolerance
Magazine article by Olivier Burckhardt; Contemporary Review, Vol. 274, June 1999
Subjects: Fanaticism--Analysis, Toleration--Analysis
...chaos. The term men, humans, people was reserved for Egyptians; foreign neighbours were somehow conceded to be other. Macrobius, the 5th century neo-Platonist, questioned whether slaves possess human standing and if the gods took them into consideration...


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newspaper articles on: Macrobius  - 2 results

 
 
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It's the Xmas Factor; Everyone Knows the Christmas Story by Heart. but How Historically Accurate Is the Traditional Nativity Tale - with the Shepherds Tending Their Flock, the Manger and the Three Wise Men? Was There Really an Inn - with No Room - and Gifts from Afar? and What Happened to the Relics? Here MATT ROPER Takes a Look at What Might Be the Facts Behind the Christmas Story
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), December 19, 2009
...really took place? The first non-Christian reference to the massacre was recorded four centuries later by Roman philosopher Macrobius. He describes how Herod ordered the killing of all two-yearold boys in the whole of Syria, including the kings own son...
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Take My Mummy in Law. Please! WORLD'S 10 OLDEST JOKES REVEALED
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 1, 2008
...service at the Palace? No, your Highness, he replied, but my father was. (Features in Saturnalia, by Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius around 63 BC). GREGS VERDICT: This would get laughs at The Comedy store, Whay, Brilliant. 9/10 9. Wishing to teach...


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encyclopedia articles on: Macrobius  - 2 results

 
 
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Macrobius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MACROBIUS m kro be s, fl. c.430, Latin writer and philosopher. His Saturnalia, a dialogue in seven books chiefly concerned with a...
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Latin Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was a noted historian. The philological scholars of the empire were numerous. These included Aulus Gellius , Terentianus, Macrobius , Martianus Capella , and Priscian . As the classical inspiration died, the tradition of Latin literature was borrowed from...


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