MACROBIUS AMBROSIUS THEODOSIUS

(H/B) MACROBIUS (VOLUME I)
The Saturnalia, Macrobius's encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century CE, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a dialogue, the Saturnalia treats subjects as diverse as the divinity of the Sun and the quirks of human digestion while showcasing Virgil as the master of all human knowledge from diction and rhetoric to philosophy and religion. The new Latin text is based on a refined understanding of the medieval tradition and improves on ...
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(H/B) MACROBIUS (VOLUME II)
The Saturnalia, Macrobius's encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century CE, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a dialogue, the Saturnalia treats subjects as diverse as the divinity of the Sun and the quirks of human digestion while showcasing Virgil as the master of all human knowledge from diction and rhetoric to philosophy and religion. The new Latin text is based on a refined understanding of the medieval tradition and improves on ...
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(H/B) MACROBIUS (VOLUME III)
The Saturnalia, Macrobius's encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century CE, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a dialogue, the Saturnalia treats subjects as diverse as the divinity of the Sun and the quirks of human digestion while showcasing Virgil as the master of all human knowledge from diction and rhetoric to philosophy and religion. The new Latin text is based on a refined understanding of the medieval tradition and improves on ...
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(P/B) COMMENTARY ON THE DREAM OF SCIPIO BY MACROBIUS
THE PRESENT STUDY happens to be the second volume in the Records of Civilization series to deal with the Late Latin encyclopedists who were largely responsible for transmitting a knowledge of classical philosophy, liberal arts, and science to the medieval world. Professor Leslie W. Jones's study of Cassiodorus' "An Introduction to Divine and Human Readings" appeared in 1946. The small group of compilers to which Macrobius and Cassiodorus belonged, whose zeal it was, as the Roman Empire was expiring in the West, to preserve in digested form...
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