Nemesianus, "Cynegetica": Edition und Komentar
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CONTENT: Nemesians unheroische Jagden -- Entstehungszeit, Aufbau des Werkes und Sachquellen -- Prosodie und Metrik -- Überlieferung und Editionen -- Kritische Edition -- Sigla -- Anhang: die Glossen in Paris, BDF Lat. 4839 (b) -- Kommentar.
Nemesianus's didactic poem about hunting, written in 283-84 AD, is based in its structure and conception on Vergil's Georgics, the classical model for the genre. In its presentation of hunting as a leisure sport, the Cynegetica provides an un-heroic counterpoint to earlier hunti…