Texts

Ora maritima

Incoming data

Latin poem and periplus, often thought to have been based on the Greek Massaliote Periplus and the Periplus by Himilco.

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[crit. ed.] Murphy, John P. [ed. and tr.], Rufus Festus Avienus. Ora maritima: or description of the seacoast (from Brittany round to Massilia), Chicago: Ares, 1977.

[crit. ed.] Berthelot, André [ed.], Rufus Festus Avienus. Ora maritima, Paris, 1934.

[ed.] Murphy, John P. [ed. and tr.], Rufus Festus Avienus. Ora maritima: or description of the seacoast (from Brittany round to Massilia), Chicago: Ares, 1977.

The first printed edition (1488).

[ed.] Stichtenoth, Dietrich [ed. and tr.], Ora maritima: Lateinisch und Deutsch, scripsit Rufus Festus Avienus, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1968.

Not a critical edition, but a reproduction of the first printed text (Venice, 1488).

No modern edition.

Secondary sources (select)

Freeman, Philip, Ireland and the classical world, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.

Hawkes, Charles Francis Christopher, Pytheas: Europe and the Greek explorers. A lecture delivered at New College, Oxford on 20th May, 1975, revised ed., J. L. Myres Memorial Lecture, 8, Oxford: Blackwell, 1977.

Koch, John T., “Ériu, Alba, and Letha: when was a language ancestral to Gaelic first spoken in Ireland?”, Emania 9 (1991): 17–27.

Koch, John T., “New thoughts on Albion, Ierne, and the ‘Pretanic’ Isles”, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 6–7 (1986): 1–28.