Latin Ilias Latina announcement

*The Campanian Society announces the availability of . . . . *



*The Latin Iliad: Introduction, Text Translation and Notes*

George A. Kennedy

ISBN: 1-030786-02-1



The Latin of the *Ilias Latina* is remarkably easy; this text can be used
to great advantage with high school

Latin students and intermediate or advanced college students. The following
lines summarize Iliad 9:



Attoniti Danaum proceres discrimine tanto

nec dapibus relevant animos nec corporat curant,

sed miseri sua fata gemunt. Mox Nestore pulsi

legatos mittunt destramque hortantur Achillis,

ut ferat auxilium miseris. Therideius heros

nec Danaum capit aure preces nec munera regis

ulla referre cupit; non illum redditus ignis

aut intacta suo Briseis corpore movit.

Irrata legati referunt responsa Pelasgis

et dapibus curant animos lenique sopore (*Ilias Latin*, 686-695)



*Ilias Latina* is a reduction of the entire *Iliad* into 1070 lies. This
short Latin translation of the *Iliad*, written

(probably) by Baebius Italicus during the reign of Nero, is classical in
style and draws upon Vergil and Ovid for

vocabulary, syntax and idioms.



From late antiquity until the Renaissance, the I*lias Latina *was the
primary source for knowledge in western

Europe of the over-all contents and arrangement of the Greek Iliad. For
about a thousand years, the Greek

original was not known in the West, and the numerous manuscripts of the *Ilias
Latina* found all over western

Europe and used as school texts complemented what could be read about the
legends of the Trojan War in

Vergil’s Aeneid and the writing of Ovid and other Latin poets.



Kennedy’s edition of this poem provides an Introduction (The Significance
of the Latin Iliad, The Author and

Date of the Poem, Italicus’ Treatment of the Iliad, History of the Text and
Selected Bibliography); Latin Text,

English translation and Commentary. Kennedy’s translation is accurate,
literal and sensitive to the Latin,

preserving (whenever possible) the Latin hexameter line by a single line in
the English translation. In his

translation, Kennedy has cleverly preserved the acrostics at the beginning
and end of the Latin text (ITALICUS)

— spelled by the first letters of lines 1-8; and SCRIPSIT spelled by the
first letters of line 11063-1070.

Line numbers in both the Latin text and translation allow for easy
references.



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