Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.30.3, pp. 1788-1811
 
The 'Elegiae in Maecenatem'
by Henk Schoonhoven, Groningen

Contents

I. Transmission

1788

1. The Murbach catalogue

1788

2. The manuscripts

1789

II. Composition

1791

1. Introduction

1791

2. The composition of vv. 1-144

1792

a) Vv. 133-144

1792

b) Vv. 129-132: the Lucifer/Hesperus scene

1793

c) The generic classification of vv. 1-144

1796

3. The composition of the second elegy

1798

a) Vv. 3-6 / 27-34

1798

b) Vv. 7-26

1798

c) Generic classification

1798

III. Date

1799

IV. Language, style and metre

1807

V. The author

1809

VI. Bibliography

1809

1. Editions and commentaries

1809

2. Other works

1810
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