Paola Paolucci

Il centone virgiliano Hippodamia dell’Anthologia Latina

Introduction, critical edition, traduction and commentary edited by Paola Paolucci

2006

CLXX/338 pp.

Series: Bibliotheca Weidmanniana

Publisher: Olms Weidmann

ISBN: 3-487-13077-7

This volume contains a critical edition and an Italian translation of the Virgilian cento Hippodamia, a comprehensive introduction and a line-by-line commentary. The introduction examines the sources of the poem, the narratological model, the composition, characteristics of the metre and prosody and the tradition of cento texts.