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Maurus Servius Honoratus, senantik kommentator till Aeneiden och hans metod, jämförd med en modern filologs (R.D. Williams)

Grammatikern Servius och hans kommentarer av Aeneiden

Author

  • Maria Natasja Hovén Rivnac

Summary, in English

Maurus Servius Honoratus was a grammarian and teacher who lived in the 4th century, the author of a well-known Commentary on Virgil’s Aeneid as well as on his Eclogues and Georgica. This commentary is very well known and even today scholars of Virgil will have recourse to it when having trouble explaining difficult passages in Virgil’s works. Servius explains points of language, but also gives valuable information on history, mythology, religion, philosophy and geography. His style is rather sparse and opaque, and thus has not been widely translated, however there is a recent translation of Book IV of the Aeneid by two scholars of an American university. Besides translating the first ten or so lemmata of Books I and IV, my essay also tries to compare the method Servius used with that of a modern commentary, that of R.D. Williams. It also attempts to give a summary description of how Latin was taught in the 4th century.

Department/s

Publishing year

2017

Language

Swedish

Document type

Student publication for Bachelor's degree

Topic

  • Languages and Literatures

Keywords

  • undervisningsmetod
  • senantik språkundervisning
  • Vergiliuskommentar
  • grammaticus
  • Servius
  • grammatiker
  • exeges

Supervisor

  • Arne Jönsson (Professor)