R G Austin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1040476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R G Austin |
| GIVEN NAMES | R G |
| FAMILY NAME | Austin |
| SIGNATURE | AUSTIN R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1925 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Aeneidos Liber Sextus
Hector's Hair-Style
On Aen . 2. 277 DServius notes ‘non sine ratione etiam hoc de crinibus dolet Aeneas, quia illis maxime Hector commendabatur, adeo ut etiam tonsura ab eo nomen acceperit, sicut Graeci poetae docent.’ Fraenkel showed ( J.R.S. xxxix [1949], 151 f., = Kl. Beitr . ii. 381 f.) that the reference in Graeci poetae is to Lycophron (1133 ), the source of the comment being provided by Eustathius 1276. 29, a scholion on Il . 22. 401 f. He adds a caution agai…
Ille Ego Qui Quondam
Of these lines Markland wrote in 1728 (on Statius, S . 5. 3. 8) ‘patet ignari cuiusdam et barbari interpolatoris esse’; Dr. Trapp in 1735 found them ‘in themselves flat, and improper, and altogether unworthy of Virgil’; ‘in his ipsis miror qui factum sit ut Viri Doctissimi non agnouerint orationis uim et elegantiam’ (Wagner, 1832); ‘finding in them ... all Virgil's usual ease and suavity ... [we] hail those verses with joy, and reinstate them in …
Virgil, Aeneid 2. 567–88
Few critics can ever have shown more light-hearted thoughtlessness towards an anxious posterity than Servius in his casual preservation of the ‘Helen-episode’, lacking in our ancient manuscripts of Virgil and primarily extant only in this precarious form. A pity that Servius spoke at all, if he could not tell us more; and to make matters worse, he ignored the lines in his commentary. Aelius Donatus says nothing of them. Tiberius Claudius Donatus …
Virgil and the Wooden Horse
In his play Dido Queen of Carthage , compassing Troy's fall, Aeneas' wanderings, and Dido's passion (with the curtain falling not on one corpse but on three), Marlowe makes his Dido say as she begs for the tale of Troy: ‘Many tales go of that city's fall, And scarcely do agree upon one point: Some say, Antenor did betray the town; Others report, 'twas Sinon's perjury; But all in this, that Troy is overcome, And Priam dead.’
Classical Education in Britain 1500-1900
Quintilian on Painting and Statuary
T he clear affinity between Quintilian's art-criticism (xii. 10. 3–9) and the comparable portions of Pliny's Natural History has often been remarked. Pliny's principal sources for his chapters on art have long been recognized as going back through Varro to the great third-century critics, Xenocrates of Sicyon and Antigonus of Carystus, the latter of whom worked over Xenocrates' treatise and incorporated new material of his own; an earlier Greek s…
Greek Board-Games
The study of Greek board-games is almost wholly inconclusive, owing to the scanty and extremely imprecise evidence available. Difficulties would in any case be inevitable, since most games are better grasped in actual play than by studying a set of written rules; and here the technicalities are expressed in a foreign language and were sometimes not clear even to their users, who cheerfully omit what they do not understand, or take it for granted …
Roman Board Games. II
It is now time to deal with the much-discussed and much-abused passage of Isidore, Orig . xviii. 60 ff. The account begins: ‘De Tabula. Alea, id est lusus tabulae, inventa a Graecis ...; tabula luditur pyrgo, calculis tesserisque.’ After explaining the meaning of pyrgus (dice-box), calculi , and tesserae , Isidore continues with a section entitled De Figuris Aleae, a description of the board; then follow the names of the throws, remarks on the be…
Prvdentivs, Apotheosis 895
The MS. tradition of Prudentius is particularly interesting, since in the famous Codex Puteanus (Par. Lat. 8084) we have a MS. dating from the early sixth century—i.e. but little more than a hundred years after the publication of the collected poems in 405. Yet it has only been of late years that due consideration has been given to this ancient Codex, which is the actual MS. corrected by Vettius Mavortius' own hand. Mr. Winstedt has spoken ( Clas…
Ovid, Metamorphoses VII. 268
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Ille Ego Qui Quondam
Of these lines Markland wrote in 1728 (on Statius, S . 5. 3. 8) ‘patet ignari cuiusdam et barbari interpolatoris esse’; Dr. Trapp in 1735 found them ‘in themselves flat, and improper, and altogether unworthy of Virgil’; ‘in his ipsis miror qui factum sit ut Viri Doctissimi non agnouerint orationis uim et elegantiam’ (Wagner, 1832); ‘finding in them ... all Virgil's usual ease and suavity ... [we] hail those verses with joy, and reinstate them in …
Quintilian on Painting and Statuary
T he clear affinity between Quintilian's art-criticism (xii. 10. 3–9) and the comparable portions of Pliny's Natural History has often been remarked. Pliny's principal sources for his chapters on art have long been recognized as going back through Varro to the great third-century critics, Xenocrates of Sicyon and Antigonus of Carystus, the latter of whom worked over Xenocrates' treatise and incorporated new material of his own; an earlier Greek s…
Greek Board-Games
The study of Greek board-games is almost wholly inconclusive, owing to the scanty and extremely imprecise evidence available. Difficulties would in any case be inevitable, since most games are better grasped in actual play than by studying a set of written rules; and here the technicalities are expressed in a foreign language and were sometimes not clear even to their users, who cheerfully omit what they do not understand, or take it for granted …
Aeneidos Liber Sextus
Ovid, Metamorphoses VII. 268
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Prvdentivs, Apotheosis 895
The MS. tradition of Prudentius is particularly interesting, since in the famous Codex Puteanus (Par. Lat. 8084) we have a MS. dating from the early sixth century—i.e. but little more than a hundred years after the publication of the collected poems in 405. Yet it has only been of late years that due consideration has been given to this ancient Codex, which is the actual MS. corrected by Vettius Mavortius' own hand. Mr. Winstedt has spoken ( Clas…
Roman Board Games. II
It is now time to deal with the much-discussed and much-abused passage of Isidore, Orig . xviii. 60 ff. The account begins: ‘De Tabula. Alea, id est lusus tabulae, inventa a Graecis ...; tabula luditur pyrgo, calculis tesserisque.’ After explaining the meaning of pyrgus (dice-box), calculi , and tesserae , Isidore continues with a section entitled De Figuris Aleae, a description of the board; then follow the names of the throws, remarks on the be…
Greek Board-Games
The study of Greek board-games is almost wholly inconclusive, owing to the scanty and extremely imprecise evidence available. Difficulties would in any case be inevitable, since most games are better grasped in actual play than by studying a set of written rules; and here the technicalities are expressed in a foreign language and were sometimes not clear even to their users, who cheerfully omit what they do not understand, or take it for granted …
Quintilian on Painting and Statuary
T he clear affinity between Quintilian's art-criticism (xii. 10. 3–9) and the comparable portions of Pliny's Natural History has often been remarked. Pliny's principal sources for his chapters on art have long been recognized as going back through Varro to the great third-century critics, Xenocrates of Sicyon and Antigonus of Carystus, the latter of whom worked over Xenocrates' treatise and incorporated new material of his own; an earlier Greek s…
Virgil and the Wooden Horse
In his play Dido Queen of Carthage , compassing Troy's fall, Aeneas' wanderings, and Dido's passion (with the curtain falling not on one corpse but on three), Marlowe makes his Dido say as she begs for the tale of Troy: ‘Many tales go of that city's fall, And scarcely do agree upon one point: Some say, Antenor did betray the town; Others report, 'twas Sinon's perjury; But all in this, that Troy is overcome, And Priam dead.’
Classical Education in Britain 1500-1900
Virgil, Aeneid 2. 567–88
Few critics can ever have shown more light-hearted thoughtlessness towards an anxious posterity than Servius in his casual preservation of the ‘Helen-episode’, lacking in our ancient manuscripts of Virgil and primarily extant only in this precarious form. A pity that Servius spoke at all, if he could not tell us more; and to make matters worse, he ignored the lines in his commentary. Aelius Donatus says nothing of them. Tiberius Claudius Donatus …
Ille Ego Qui Quondam
Of these lines Markland wrote in 1728 (on Statius, S . 5. 3. 8) ‘patet ignari cuiusdam et barbari interpolatoris esse’; Dr. Trapp in 1735 found them ‘in themselves flat, and improper, and altogether unworthy of Virgil’; ‘in his ipsis miror qui factum sit ut Viri Doctissimi non agnouerint orationis uim et elegantiam’ (Wagner, 1832); ‘finding in them ... all Virgil's usual ease and suavity ... [we] hail those verses with joy, and reinstate them in …
Hector's Hair-Style
On Aen . 2. 277 DServius notes ‘non sine ratione etiam hoc de crinibus dolet Aeneas, quia illis maxime Hector commendabatur, adeo ut etiam tonsura ab eo nomen acceperit, sicut Graeci poetae docent.’ Fraenkel showed ( J.R.S. xxxix [1949], 151 f., = Kl. Beitr . ii. 381 f.) that the reference in Graeci poetae is to Lycophron (1133 ), the source of the comment being provided by Eustathius 1276. 29, a scholion on Il . 22. 401 f. He adds a caution agai…
Aeneidos Liber Sextus
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