Servius, Cato the Elder and Virgil

This paper considers one of the most significant of the authors cited in the Servian tradition, Cato the Elder. He is cited more than any other historian, and looked at the other way round, Servius is a very important source for our knowledge of Cato. This paper addresses the questions of what we le...

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Hlavní autor: Smith, Christopher
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Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Mélanges de l’École française de Rome - Antiquité 2017
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Shrnutí:This paper considers one of the most significant of the authors cited in the Servian tradition, Cato the Elder. He is cited more than any other historian, and looked at the other way round, Servius is a very important source for our knowledge of Cato. This paper addresses the questions of what we learn from Servius’ use of Cato, and what we learn about Virgil ?