Serenus Sammonicus
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- Born
- 200. · Pergamon.
- Died
- 212.
- Nationality
- Ancient Rome.
- Occupation
- physician and poet.
- Known for
- De medicina praecepta and On various questions.
- Languages
- Latin.
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The recorded working language is Latin. Works named in the authority record are De medicina praecepta and On various questions.
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200
Serenus Sammonicus born at Pergamon.
212
Serenus Sammonicus died.
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scholarly publication
- Serenus Sammonicus, An Anthology of Later Latin Literature, 1987
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1987
- VLQ 33 - Cicero, Fulbertus Carnotensis, Persius, Grammaticalia, Priscianus, Carmina, Dionysius, Serenus Sammonicus, Clemens Scotus ( ?), Vossiani Latini online
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q933792: Serenus Sammonicus
Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation
- “Serenus Sammonicus”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 102405794, Serenus, Sammonicus.
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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- 1.Vollmer, Friedrich, Quinti Sereni Liber Medicinalis Leipzig, Teubner, 1916; Kai Brodersen, Quintus Serenus, Medizinischer Rat (Liber medicinalis), Latin/German, Berlin and Boston 2016.
- 2.For the antiquarianism, see R. Marache, La critique littéraire de langue latine et le développement du goût archaïsant au IIe siècle de notre ère (1951).
- 3.Edward Champlin, "Serenus Sammonicus" Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 85 (1981:189-212) p. 193.
- 4."vir saeculo suo doctus". quoted by Edward Champlin 1981, p. 189.
- 5.Arnobius repeats the derivation of the placename Capitolium from an ancient tomb there of one Olus Vulcentanus, of whom the head was recovered, as Caput Oli (noted by Champlin 1981:193, who remarks, p. 194, "One other characteristic distinguishes Serenus Sammonicus: he is exceptionally silly.").
- 6.Champlin 1981:289.
- 7.A son, to whom he bequeathed his library, who then gave it to Gordian II, has been demonstrated to be one of many imaginary creations of the Augustan History by Ronald Syme, Emperors and Biography: Studies in the Historia Augusta. (Oxford, 1971:10, 184).
- 8."A source which immediately engenders caution in the reader," as Champlin remarks.
- 9.Champlin 1981:289.
- 10.Further editions include that by Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann (Leipzig, 1786), and E. Behrens, in Poetae Latini minores, iii.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- August Baur, Quaestiones Sammoniceae (Giessen, 1886)
- Martin Schanz, Geschichte der römischen Literatur, iii. (1896)
- Teuffel, History of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 374, 4, and 383.
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Serenus Sammonicus, An Anthology of Later Latin Literature, 1987Crossref registry
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 102405794, Serenus, Sammonicus.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q933792: Serenus SammonicusWikimedia Foundation
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