Astronomicon: Volume 1, Liber Primus
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: M, Manilii / Manilii, M. / A. E., Hovsman, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, A. E. Housman's five-volume critical edition of Marcus Manilius's Astronomicon has long been regarded as the definitive work on the subject. The task of bringing the edition together was one of considerable proportion which took Housman twenty-seven years to complete. It is now considered one of his most enduring and important contributions to scholarship. This volume contains the Latin text of the first book of Manilius, originally published in , and then reprinted by the Cambridge University Press with addenda in . It offers a short introductory note by Housman's friend and colleague at Trinity College, Cambridge, A. S. F. Gow, as well as a detailed introduction by Housman himself, tracing the manuscript history of the work and discussing particular challenges posed by the editorial process.