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Paperback The Disputatio Chori Et Praetextati: The Roman Calendar for Beginners [Latin] Book

ISBN: 2503584233

ISBN13: 9782503584232

The Disputatio Chori Et Praetextati: The Roman Calendar for Beginners [Latin]

The first book of Macrobius' Saturnalia, written probably in the 430s AD, includes a historical exposition of the Roman calendar with a dramatic date some fifty years earlier, set in the mouth of the learned senator Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, followed by more technical detail at the request of an Egyptian named Horus, who as a foreigner is allowed to seek elementary information for which no one brought up in Roman culture would need to ask. This...

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