Author: COLUTHUS (COLLUTHUS).
Title: Coluthi Lycopolitae Thebani De raptu Helenae libellus. Ex graecis in latina carmina conversus, versionibus, variantibus, & animadversionibus illustratus. Opera, et studio Philippi Scio a Sancto Michaele.
Description: Matriti: ex typographia Antonii Marin, 1770. 4to. [24], 174, [1]p. Contemporary calf; a fine copy. The Rape of Helen is the only extant poem of Coluthus, Greek epic poet from Lycopolis in Egypt (fl. c.500 A.D.). Written in imitation of Homer and Nonnus, the poem tells the story of Paris and Helen from the wedding of Peleus and Thetis down to the elopement and arrival in Troy. This edition contains the Greek text, Latin version by Phelipe Scio de San Miguel, Bishop of Segovia, and a Spanish version by Ignacio García de San Antonio. Palau 57424. No copy recorded in NUC (whose earliest Spanish translation is Paris, 1823). BL STC Spanish, 18th century, C761.

Keywords: Greek, Latin, Spanish, epic poetry, antiquarian


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