Carmen astrologicum elegiacum
Astrologus, Anubio Poeta / Obbink, Dirk![Carmen astrologicum elegiacum](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/130/13001417/CHSBZCOP0313001417.jpg)
This is the editio princeps, based on new papyrus discoveries, of a Greek poem on astrology by an author whose notorious collaborations with Simon Magus is novelistically recounted in the Clementina. A versified handbook of horoscopes and introduction to the sciences, it is the only Greek astrological poem to have been written in elegiac couplets, and ist a new accession to the corpus of didactic poetry in the tradition of Aratus' Phaenomena, ...