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Genre/Form: | Classification Early works Pre-Linnean works |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Oppian, of Apamea.; A W Mair; Colluthus, of Lycopolis.; Tryphiodorus. |
ISBN: | 9780674992412 0674992415 |
OCLC Number: | 10816308 |
Language Note: | Greek and English on opposite pages. |
Notes: | The author of the Halieutica is Oppianus of Anazarbus (or of Corycus) in Cilicia; the Cynegetica is by a native (of the same name?) of Apamea in Syria. |
Description: | lxxx, 635 ; 17 cm |
Contents: | Cynegetica. Halieutica / Oppian -- The rape of Helen / Colluthus -- The taking of Ilios / Tryphiodorus. |
Series Title: | Loeb classical library, 219. |
Other Titles: | Cynegetica. |
Responsibility: | [each] with an English translation by A.W. Mair. |
Abstract:
In Fishing, Oppian of Cilicia, who flourished in the latter half of the second century CE, discusses fish and gives angling instructions. The Chase, on hunting, may be the work of a Syrian imitator. Colluthus and Tryphiodorus (properly Triphiodorus), epic poets of Egypt, wrote in the second half of the fifth century CE.
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