The Sicilian Translators of the Twelfth Century and the First Latin Version of Ptolemy's Almagest (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Charles Homer Haskins

9780366747450: The Sicilian Translators of the Twelfth Century and the First Latin Version of Ptolemy's Almagest (Classic Reprint)

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This name gives rise to a difficulty, for the lake of Pergusa, the fabled scene of the rape of Proserpine (ovid, Metam. 5, 386; Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae, 2, 1 lies in the vicinity of Castrogiovanni, the ancient Enna, at so considerable a dis tance from Etna that there would be no possible danger to an observer. The phrase ethnea miracula would seem too definite to be interpreted as volcanic phenomena which might occur in the region of Pergusa at a time of disturbance of Etna. Possi bly the author meant some fount in the neighborhood of Etna otherwise unknown to us.

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