At 05:25 AM 4/24/03 +0800, Alexander Bril wrote: >Are not the ref. to these critics found in Suet. & Donat. only? If this is >the case, any dates to be assigned to them must necessarily be conjecture >based on the earliest reference(s), in this case, Suet. and his source >Asconius. Hence, the only thing one could say with certainty is that these >critics wrote their works at some time after Vergil's compositions and some >time before Suetonius' work de poetis (or rather before the work Asconius >Pedianus Contra obtrectatores Vergilii in the 1st C.). Sorry if this seems >somewhat lame and blatantly obvious, but I can't see how one could produce a >more accurate date!
I think Bril is right about this: I haven't found any references to these critics outside of Suetonius/Donatus. But this isn't the case for all of the critics mentioned in the vita: Asconius Pedianus is a good example of this. As for Perellius Faustus and Q. Octavius Avitus, the fact that they don't appear in Pauly is a pretty good sign that more information on these particular critics is not forthcoming. But I will have a look at the EV index next time I am in Chapel Hill. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] East Carolina University Virgil reception, discussion, documents, &c ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
