Davies
Subtitle: Macrobius Saturnalia (Cloth)
Contributors: Percival Vaughan Davies (Translator)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: April 1969
Place of publication: NY & London
Language: eng; lat
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780231029209
Subjects: Literature: Texts
Description: Discussions on the subject of the Roman festival of Saturnalia, near the time of the winter solstice. By Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, a fifth-century Roman grammarian and Neoplatonist philosopher, possibly born in Syria or N. Africa. Includes discussions of the Roman calendar and sun worship.