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Macrobius

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Macrobius , fl. c.430, Latin writer and philosopher. His Saturnalia, a dialogue in seven books chiefly concerned with a literary evaluation of Vergil, incorporates valuable quotations from other writers. He also wrote a commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio, which was popular in the Middle Ages and influenced Chaucer. Author not available, MACROBIUS. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

‘Somnium Scipionis’
...s treatise breaks off early in the last book, and the survival of the Somnium is due to its being reproduced by a certain Macrobius, who in the 4th cent. ad furnished it with a Neoplatonist commentary that interested medieval thinkers. The fable relates... Read more

Latin literature
...was a noted historian. The philological scholars of the empire were numerous. These included Aulus Gellius , Terentianus, Macrobius , Martianus Capella , and Priscian . As the classical inspiration died, the tradition of Latin literature was borrowed from... Read more

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	Macrobius brings $48,875 at Pacific Book auction ; ...sale of December 10, 1998. Among the fine and unusual examples of early books and manuscripts, a rare circular world map by Macrobius included in a 3 leaf fragment of "In Somnium Scipionis," (Venice?: before 1483), captured the attention of bidders world-wide... Read more
	PLANETARY DIAGRAMS FOR ROMAN ASTRONOMY IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE, CA. 800-1500 ; ...Roman works. These are Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Macrobius's Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, Martianus Capella...the diagram in question to a doctrine of a different author, Macrobius for example. Correct assignment of a diagram to its originating... Read more
	A conduct book for Richard II.(Geoffrey Chaucer's poem 'The Parliament of Fowls') ; ...parliament of fowls.(1) Unlike the olde bok totorn (110), the Macrobius text of and commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, which...warnings about violations of the natural law. In speaking of Macrobius' (or Cicero's) book, Chaucer identifies the law of commune... Read more
	(book review) ; ...practised an art of description derived from Macrobius, expounded in commentaries on Horace...Hunt's suggestion that the reference to Macrobius in the coronation scene in Erec et Enide...of the Saturnalia, concluding that for Macrobius `description ... is the imitation of... Read more
	BRIDAL FEATURE; Engagement rings through the ages ; ...as the 4th century A.D., inscriptions, elaborate or as simple as "honey," embellished the inside of the band. According to Macrobius, a 5th century Roman writer, the betrothal ring was worn on the fourth finger of the left hand. It was believed that from... Read more
	psittacine sex-god The Parrot in Art:From Drer to Elizabeth Butterworth ; The classical author Macrobius wrote that immediately after Julius Caesar had defeated Mark Antony, at the battle of Actium, he was hailed by a parrot. 'Hail... Read more
	Gersh, Stephen. Reading Plato, Tracing Plato: From Ancient Commentary to Medieval Reception.(Book review) ; ...and ontology in Plato's Cratylus with Eriugena's and Anselm's assimilations of Plato's doctrines mediated through Calcidius, Macrobius, Martianus Capella, Boethius, and Augustine, and it terminates with insights of Hugh of St. Victor concerning the compatibility... Read more
	The Matter of Sounds. ; ...archetype for all musical dreams through the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Cicero's Somnium scipionis, dispersed widely enough in Macrobius's Commentaries to become a commonplace in praises of music and its powers. If, however, Scipio's dream is a straightforward... Read more
	(book reviews) ; ...book begins with late antique 'Neoplatonic' dream theories of Macrobius and Calcidius, and patristic theories, in particular those...that traditional accounts of dream theory often overestimate Macrobius' influence and ignore the extent to which dream theories changed... Read more
	Florence, 1492: the reappearance of Plotinus.(the publication of Plotinus's manuscripts in the 15th century) ; ...antiquity had been lost. He was not totally unknown, however, thanks to scholars like Firmicus Maternus, Saint Augustine, Macrobius, and to those parts of the works of Proclus translated in the thirteenth century by William of Moerbeke. But Plotinus's own... Read more

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