About “Ilias Latina”
The Ilias Latina is a short Latin hexameter version of Homer's Iliad that was popular in Antiquity and remained widely studied through the Middle Ages. It was part of the standard Latin curriculum in medieval schools. The text is a condensed version of the Iliad, consisting of 1070 lines, and is described as a "crude condensation" by Ernest Robert Curtius. It is attributed to Publius Baebius Italicus, a Roman senator, and dated to the decade 60–70 CE. The work contains two acrostic elements: the first lines spell out ITALICUS, and the last lines spell SCRIPSIT, meaning "Italicus wrote (it)." (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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