1647 1ed Valerius Maximus Dictorum Factorum ROME Tiberius Scipio Latin Lipsius
A rare printing of Valerius’s “Dictorum et Factorum” or Historical Anecdotes. This work is a collection of short stories, sayings, and phrases, memorial to Tiberius Caesar, who was reigning during Valerius’ lifetime. These anecdotes depict ancient Greek life and philosophy as well as famous kings and Caesars. Many modern historians claim that Valerius’s work was taken from Cicero, Livy, and Sallust, as well as other ancient historians and philosophers, rather than creating original works.
However, many of the topics he writes about were controversial and unusual for the time – he wrote on homosexuality within the Roman army and the aristocracy of ancient Greece. While homosexually itself was written on, it was only considered tolerable in a ‘master-slave’ relationship; not within a public and high status sense. Other topics include omens, revenge, superstitious cults, women lawyers, modesty, crimes, and conflicting political views. Notable names mentioned in this famous work include Scipio Africanus, Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus, and Alexander the Great!
This 1647 Jansson edition contains the notes of Justus Lipsius, the famed 17th-century Flemish scholar.
1647 1ed Valerius Maximus Dictorum Factorum ROME Tiberius Scipio Latin Lipsius
A rare printing of Valerius’s “Dictorum et Factorum” or Historical Anecdotes. This work is a collection of short stories, sayings, and phrases, memorial to Tiberius Caesar, who was reigning during Valerius’ lifetime. These anecdotes depict ancient Greek life and philosophy as well as famous kings and Caesars. Many modern historians claim that Valerius’s work was taken from Cicero, Livy, and Sallust, as well as other ancient historians and philosophers, rather than creating original works.
However, many of the topics he writes about were controversial and unusual for the time – he wrote on homosexuality within the Roman army and the aristocracy of ancient Greece. While homosexually itself was written on, it was only considered tolerable in a ‘master-slave’ relationship; not within a public and high status sense. Other topics include omens, revenge, superstitious cults, women lawyers, modesty, crimes, and conflicting political views. Notable names mentioned in this famous work include Scipio Africanus, Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus, and Alexander the Great!
This 1647 Jansson edition contains the notes of Justus Lipsius, the famed 17th-century Flemish scholar.
Item number: #16734
Price: $499
MAXIMUS, Valerius
Valerii Maximi dictorum factorumq[ue] memorabilium libri IX
Amstelodami : Jansson, 1647. First edition.
Details:
- Collation: Complete with all pages
- [12], 486, [26]
- Language: Latin
- Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
- Size: ~5.25in X 3in (13.5cm x 8cm)
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16734
Category
Classical Greco-Roman
Authors
MAXIMUS, Valerius
Printing Date
17th Century
Language
Latin
Binding
Vellum
Book Condition
Excellent
Collation
Complete
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