Late Antique Historiography

Collection

Title(s):
  • Collection
  • Collectio rerum memorabilium
    (Collectio rerum memorabilium, Collection of curiosities)
  • Collectanea rerum memorabilium
    (Collectanea rerum memorabilium, Collection of curiosities)
  • Polyhistor ab ipso editus et recognitus. De situ orbis terrarum et de singulis mirabilibus quae in mundo habetur
    (Polyhistor ab ipso editus et recognitus. De situ orbis terrarum et de singulis mirabilibus quae in mundo habetur, The polymath, edited and revised by himself: About the world and the wonders that are present in it)
  • Memorabilia
    (Memorabilia, Memorabilia)
  • Admirabilia
    (Admirabilia, On admirable things)
  • De situ orbis terrarum et de singulis mirabilibus quae mundi ambitu continentur
    (De situ orbis terrarum et de singulis mirabilibus quae mundi ambitu continentur, On the position of the regions of the world and the singular wonders the world contains)
Author:
Period covered:
Classical Antiquity
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Secular history (miscellany)
Remarks:
Schmidt (1995) dates Solinus to the reign of Constantius II (337-361). One of the attested titles of Solinus' work - Polyhistor - has been considered an invention of copyists: however, there is the possibility that Solinus in person chose it while preparing a second edition of his work (Basile 2010: 10).
Edition - Translation:
  • T. Mommsen (1895) C. Iulii Solini Collectanea rerum memorabilium. Berlin.
  • B. Basile (2010) Caio Giulio Solino, Da Roma a Taprobane: Dai Collectanea rerum memorabilium (Biblioteca medievale, 128). Rome.
  • F. Férnandez Nieto (2001) Collección de hechos memorables o el erudito. Madrid.
  • K. Brodersen (2014) Gaius Iulius Solinus: Wunder der Welt (Edition Antike). Darmstadt.
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Bibliography:
  • R. Bedon (2004) 'Le grammaticus Solin et la diffusion des connaissances antiques'. In: Naissance de la science dans l'Italie antique et moderne: Actes du Colloque franco-italien des 1 et 2 décembre 2000 (Université de Haute-Alsace), ed. L. De Poli - Y. Lehmann. Bern-Frankfurt am Main: 71-92.
  • G.M. Columba (1920) La questione soliniana e la letteratura geografica dei Romani (Estratto dal volume degli Atti della Reale Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Belle Arti di Palermo, 11). Palermo.
  • R. French (1999) Gli antichi e la natura: Historiae meravigliose e storia naturale. Genova.
  • M.E. Milham (1983) 'A handlist of the manuscripts of C. Julius Solinus'. Scriptorium 37: 126-129.
  • P.L. Schmidt (1995) 'Solinus Polyhistor in Wissenschaftgeschichte und Geschichte'. Philologus 139: 23-35.
  • W.H. Stahl (1974) La scienza dei Romani. Bari.
  • L. Thorndike (1923) History of Magic and Experimental Science. Volume One. New York: 326-321.
  • V. Von Büren (1996) 'Une édition critique de Solin au IXe siecle'. Scriptorium 50: 22-87.
  • H. Walter (1963) 'C. Julius Solinus und seine Vorlagen'. Classica et mediaevalia 24: 86-157.
  • H. Walter (1969) Die Collectanea rerum memorabilium des C. Iulius Solinus: Ihre Entstehung und die Echtheit ihrer Zweitfassung. Wiesbaden.
  • P. Zumthor (1995) La misura del mondo: La rappresentazione dello spazio nel Medioevo. Bologna.