Gaius Julius Solinus, better known simply as Solinus, was a Latingrammarian, geographer, and compiler who probably flourished in the early 3rd century AD. Historical scholar Theodor Mommsen dates him to the middle of the 3rd century.
Solinus was the author of De mirabilibus mundi ("On the Wonders of the World") which circulated under the titles Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium ("A Collection of Curious Things"), Mirabilia, and Polyhistor,[1] the latter title being favoured by the author himself. The work is indeed a description of curiosities in a chorographic framework. Adventus, to whom it is dedicated, is identified with Oclatinius Adventus, Roman consul in AD 218. It contains a short description of the ancient world, with remarks on historical, social, religious, and natural history questions. The greater part is taken from Pliny's Natural History and the geography of Pomponius Mela.[2]
According to Mommsen, Solinus also relied upon a chronicle (possibly by Cornelius Bocchus) and a chorographia Pliniana, an epitome of Pliny's work with additions made about the time of Hadrian. Schanz, however, suggests the Roma and Prata of Suetonius.[2]
A greatly revised version of his original text was made, perhaps by Solinus himself. This version contains a letter that Solinus wrote as an introduction to the work, which gives the work the title Polyhistor.[citation needed] Both versions of the work circulated widely and eventually Polyhistor was taken for the author's name. It was popular in the Middle Ages, hexameter abridgments being current under the names of Theodericus and Petrus Diaconus.[2]
The commentary by Saumaise in his Plinianae Exercitationes (1689) was considered indispensable; the 1895 edition by Mommsen includes a valuable introduction on the manuscripts, the authorities used by Solinus, and subsequent compilers. See also Teuffel, History of Roman Literature (English translation, 1900), 389; and Schanz, Geschichte der Römischen Litteratur (1904), iv. I. There is an early modern English translation by Arthur Golding (1587)[2] and a modern one with commentary by Dr. Arwen Apps of Macquarie University.
Editionsedit
Kai Brodersen, Solinus: Wunder der Welt. Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium. Lateinisch und Deutsch. Edition Antike. Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchgesellschaft 2014. ISBN978-3-534-18162-9
Arwen Elizabeth Apps, Gaius Iulius Solinus and His Polyhistor, Macquarie University, 2011 (PhD Dissertation)
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Citationsedit
^Wilford, John (1981). The Mapmakers. United States of America: Random House. p. 41. ISBN0375708502.
Hermann Walter, Die ‘Collectanea rerum memorabilium’ des C. Julius Solinus. Ihre Entstehung und die Echtheit ihrer Zweitfassung, Wiesbaden, 1969 (Hermes. Einzelschriften, 22).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Solinus, Gaius Julius". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 361.
External linksedit
Media related to Gaius Julius Solinus at Wikimedia Commons
Gaius Julius Solinus, the Polyhistor, English translation by Arwen Apps (in ToposText.org, from her PhD diss., Macquarie University, 2011)
Ivlii Solini de sitv et memorabilibvs orbis capitvla, Editio princeps, Venice 1473, at the Bavarian State Library
Gaii Iulii Solini de Mirabilibus Mundi at The Latin Library, Latin texts of both the C.L.F. Panckoucke edition (Paris 1847) and the Mommsen edition (1864).
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The excellent and pleasant worke of Iulius Solinus Polyhistor Contayning the noble actions of humaine creatures, the secretes & prouidence of nature, the description of countries, the maners of the people: with many meruailous things and strange antiquities, seruing for the benefitt and recreation of all sorts of persons. Translated out of Latin into English, by Arthur Golding. Gent.
January 19, 2024
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