Lactantius Placidus (c. 350 – c. 400 AD) was the presumed author of a commentary on
Statius
Publius Papinius Statius ( Greek: Πόπλιος Παπίνιος Στάτιος; ; ) was a Greco-Roman poet of the 1st century CE. His surviving Latin poetry includes an epic in twelve books, the ''Thebaid''; a collection of occasional poetry, ...
's poem ''
Thebaid
The Thebaid or Thebais ( grc-gre, Θηβαΐς, ''Thēbaïs'') was a region in ancient Egypt, comprising the 13 southernmost nomes of Upper Egypt, from Abydos to Aswan.
Pharaonic history
The Thebaid acquired its name from its proximity to ...
''.
Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel
Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel (; September 27, 1820March 8, 1878), German classical scholar, was born at Ludwigsburg in the Kingdom of Württemberg. In 1849 he was appointed extraordinary, in 1857 ordinary professor in the university of Tübingen, whic ...
considered him to be the same person as Luctatius Placidus, the ostensible author of a medieval Latin glossary titled ''Glossae Luctatii Placidi grammatici'' ("Glosses of Luctatius Placidus the Grammarian"). Some authors also attribute an anonymous work titled ''Narrationes fabularum quae in Ov. Metam. occurrunt'' to Lactantius, though Franz Bretzigheimer argued against this view, on the basis that the commentator on Statius lacks evidence of
Christian attitudes seen in the ''Narrationes''.
The commentary on Statius has been edited by Robert Dale Sweeney, ''Lactantii Placidi in Statii Thebaida commentum''. Vol. 1: ''Anonymi in Statii Achilleida commentum. Fulgentii ut fingitur Planciadis super Thebaiden commentariolum''. Teubner, Stuttgart 1997 (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana), .
References
Bibliography
* ''Lactantii Placidi qui dicitur Commentarios in Statii Thebaida et Commentarium in Achilleida recensuit Ricardus Jahnke'', Lipsiae, in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1898.
*
Lactantius Placidus in Statii Thebaida commentum', vol. 1, R. D. Sweeney (ed.), Stutgardiae et Lipsiae, in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1997.
4th-century Latin writers
Year of birth uncertain
Year of death uncertain
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