Iulium sidus
Appearance
Iulium sidus[1] seu Caesaris astrum,[2] designatione astronomica C/−43 K1, fuit cometa vel "stella crinita"[3] per septem fere noctes visa anno 44 a.C.n., C. Caesare nuper mortuo, nec unquam saeculis posterioribus reperta.
Fontes
[recensere | fontem recensere]- Horatius, Carmina 1.12.47
- Ovidius, Metamorphoses 15.749, 15.840-851 Textus cum commentario
- Plinius, Naturalis historia 2.93-94, 2.98
- Plutarchus, "Vita Iulii Caesaris" 69.2
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Naturales quaestiones 7.17.2
- Propertius, Elegiae 4.6.30, 4.6.59
- Servius grammaticus, Commentarii in Vergilium ad Aen. 8.681
- Suetonius, De vita Caesarum "Divus Iulius" 88
- Vergilius, Eclogae 9.47, Aeneis 8.681
Notae
[recensere | fontem recensere]Bibliographia
[recensere | fontem recensere]- Robert A. Gurval, "Caesar's Comet: the politics and poetics of an Augustan myth" in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome vol. 42 (1997) pp. 39-71
- John T. Ramsey, A. Lewis Licht, The Comet of 44 BC and Caesar's Funeral Games. Scholars Press, 1997 (APA American Classical Studies, 39)
- Kenneth Scott, "The Sidus Iulium and the Apotheosis of Caesar" in Classical Philology vol. 36 (1941) pp. 257-272
- H. Wagenvoort, "Virgil's Fourth Eclogue and the Sidus Iulium" (1929. Nova editio in H. Wagenvoort, Studies in Roman literature, culture and religion. Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 1956)