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305–375 · Latin writer and one of the most prolific producer of didactic poetry in late antiquity
Also known as: Avienus, Avienus Rufius Festus, Postumius Rufius Festus Avienius, Postumius Rufius Festus Avienus, Rufius Festus Avienus, Rufus Festus Avienus
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- AratusReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
His Phaenomena is the astronomical didactic poem that Avienius translated and expanded in the Aratea. (AI reason)
Marcus Manilius100–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetWrote the Astronomica, a Latin didactic hexameter poem on the stars and astrology. (AI reason)
- Dionysius PeriegetesReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
His verse geography of the known world was adapted by Avienius as the Descriptio orbis terrae. (AI reason)
Priscian500–600ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetAlso turned Dionysius' Greek periegesis into Latin verse geography. (AI reason)
- Pomponius MelaReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Wrote a Latin description of coasts and lands that resembles the periplus framework of the Ora Maritima. (AI reason)
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Ausonius310–395ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetA fourth-century Latin poet of erudite descriptive verse, including the Mosella. (AI reason)
Claudian370–404ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetA late antique Latin poet with a learned, mythologically ornate hexameter style. (AI reason)
- Rutilius Claudius Namatianus400–500ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
His De reditu suo is a late Latin coastal voyage poem with strong geographic description. (AI reason)
- LucretiusReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
A foundational Latin didactic poet who sets out natural philosophy in hexameters. (AI reason)
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- Hic codex Auienii co[n]tinet epigra[m]ma, eiusde[m] Arati phaenomena geographia[m] carmine heroico & oras maritimas trimetro iambico Germanici quoq[ue] & Marci Tulii Arati fragmenta & Sereni uersus de uariis curandis morbis
- Ora maritima (1934)
- Les rivages maritimes
- Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation
- Les Phénomènes d'Aratos (Collection des universités de France) (French Edition)