Liber Memorialis

Lucius Ampelius was a school author of the late Roman Empire and the author of a textbook on ancient mythology, geography and history, the Liber memorialis.

Ampelius is only known as the author of this teaching work. When he lived is uncertain. The assumptions vary between the reign of Trajan and the time of Constantine. His manual contains 50 chapters in a scooped from good sources demolition of school knowledge of his time to the reign of Trajan. The only surviving manuscript (Codex Divionensis ) is now lost. The text is preserved in a copy of the French humanist Salmasius (code Monac. Lat. 10383 ) back. Eduard Wölfflin wrote his 1854 doctoral thesis on the liber memorialis and published in 1873 the first critical edition.

Work

  • Liber memorialis ( Eduard Wölfflin BT 's edition of 1873) at LacusCurtius
  • Liber memoralis ( Erwin Assmann 's BT- issue of 1935) in the Bibliotheca Augustana
  • Ingemar King (ed.): Lucius Ampelius: Liber memorialis - What to know a young Roman ( = texts for research 94). 2nd edition, University Press, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24594-9
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