Tiberius Claudius Donatus
Illustration — Interpretationes Vergilianae Tiberius Claudius Donatus was a Roman Latin grammarian of the late 4th and early 5th century AD of whom a single work is known, the Interpretationes Vergilianae, a commentary on Virgil's Aeneid. His work, rediscovered in 1438, proved popular in the early modern age; 55 editions of this book were printed between 1488 and 1599. In his commentary, Donatus claims that the Aeneid is a work of rhetoric with the intention of praising Aeneas, stating that it is best explained by rhetors, not grammarians; therefore, he sticks to a strict literal analysis of the text.
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- 400 · Rome.
- Died
- 500
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- Ancient Rome
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Illustration — Interpretationes Vergilianae Tiberius Claudius Donatus was a Roman Latin grammarian of the late 4th and early 5th century AD of whom a single work is known, the Interpretationes Vergilianae, a commentary on Virgil's Aeneid. His work, rediscovered in 1438, proved popular in the early modern age; 55 editions of this book were printed between 1488 and 1599. In his commentary, Donatus claims that the Aeneid is a work of rhetoric with the intention of praising Aeneas, stating that it is best explained by rhetors, not grammarians; therefore, he sticks to a strict literal analysis of the text.
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Born at Rome in 400, died in 500.
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Tiberius Claudius Donatus born at Rome.
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- 1.Fantham, Elaine. Virgil. Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets. 2009-12-14. 9780195389661.
- 2.University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A New Manuscript of Tiberius Claudius Donatus at UNC-Chapel Hill. 2009.
- 3.David Scott Wilson-Okamura, Virgil in the Renaissance, CUP, 2010, p. 32
- 4.Pelttari, Aaron. The Space that Remains: Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity. Cornell University Press. 2014-08-07. 978-0-8014-5276-5.
- 5.Ziolkowski, Jan M. 1956- szerk. Putnam, Michael C. J. szerk. The Virgilian tradition : the first fifteen hundred years. Yale University Press. 2008. 978-0-300-10822-4.
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