Lucius Annaeus Cornutus

Lucius Annaeus Cornutus was a stoic philosopher at the time of the Emperor Nero. He was born in Leptis Magna in Libya, but lived most of the time in Rome. He is best known as a teacher and friend of Aulus Persius Flaccus, whose satires he edited after his death for publication, but then they caesius Bassus on its request, handed over for publication.

He was exiled in 66 or 68 of Nero, because he had indirectly disparaged the emperor's plans for a Roman history in heroic verse ( Cassius Dio, 62, 29); then lie about him before any more data.

Cornutus was the author of various rhetorical works both in Latin and in Greek. Traces of his rhetorical theory have survived in later rhetoricians, including the anonymous Seguerianus.

Expenditure

• Lucius Annaeus Cornutus: De natura deorum. Ed. Friedrich Osann. Göttingen 1844 full text
• Lucius Annaeus Cornutus: De natura deorum. Introduced, translated and annotated by Florian Schaffenrath. University of Innsbruck, diploma thesis, 2000 ( unpublished ).
• Lucius Annaeus Cornutus: Introduction to Greek mythology. Edited and translated by Peter Bush and Jürgen K. Zangenberg. Darmstadt University Press, 2010 ( = texts Forschung.95. ) ISBN 978-3-534-21228-6.