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Anderson/Box 3/59
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GB 275 Anderson/Box 3/59
Title
Manuscript essay on the Culex
Date(s)
- 1910-1940 (Circa) (Creation)
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64p paper
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Chapter 1: Interpretation and analysis, Culex's relation to Hyginus' Fabulae, comparison of passages in Culex and Fabulae.
Excursus A: Comparison of passages in Eclogue 6 and Hyginus' Fabulae, Culex's debt to Lucretius and Catullus, comparison of passages in Culex and Lucretius De rerum natura, comparison of passages in Culex and Catullus, relation of Culex to Virgil, comparison of passages in Culex and Georgics 3, relation of Culex to Propertius, Ovid and Tibullus.
Chapter 2: Authorship of Culex, making the case for Virgil.
Excursus B: Making the case for C. Julius Hyginus' authorship of Fabulae and Poeticon Astronomicon, dicussing the relation of Hyginus to Virgil.