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Cursus Fastorum: a study and edition of Pomponius Laetus’s glosses to Ovid’s Fasti

Jean, Michael
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3454-181X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436716228

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Greek and Latin.
The teacher and antiquarian Pomponius Laetus was and is among the most celebrated and studied of the 15th-century Italian humanists, and a wealth of extant material witnesses (particularly exegetical commentaries on classical texts, neo-Latin poetry, and correspondences to and from other notable humanists) testifies to his life and his activities in the various intellectual circles of Quattrocento Rome. One such piece of evidence is an extant commentary composed by Pomponius on Ovid’s Fasti. Supplementary evidence suggests that Ovid’s Fasti was a lifelong object of study for Pomponius and that his work in explicating the calendar poem’s obscure mythological, historical, and topographical references greatly influenced future generations of humanists. Despite the centrality of this particular classical text to Pomponius’s pedagogical and personal programs, his commentary on the poem has gone understudied and today lacks an edition. This dissertation remedies this lack by locating, studying, and contextualizing previously unknown extant witnesses to Pomponius’s work on Ovid’s Fasti and by providing an edition of the commentary itself. Pomponius’s commentary and the traditions in which it was read and copied are valuable witnesses to a period of intense intellectual activity and cultural engagement with classical antiquity, and this dissertation makes this evidence accessible for the first time to the modern reader.
Frank Coulson, PhD (Advisor)
Richard Fletcher, PhD (Committee Member)
Anna Grotans, PhD (Committee Member)
385 p.
Classical Studies
Pomponio Leto; Pomponius Laetus; Ovid; Fasti; edition; manuscript; humanism; Renaissance; Quattrocento

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  • Jean, M. (2015). Cursus Fastorum: a study and edition of Pomponius Laetus’s glosses to Ovid’s Fasti [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436716228

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jean, Michael. Cursus Fastorum: a study and edition of Pomponius Laetus’s glosses to Ovid’s Fasti. 2015. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436716228.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jean, Michael. "Cursus Fastorum: a study and edition of Pomponius Laetus’s glosses to Ovid’s Fasti." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436716228

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