id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7060 Gaius Julius Hyginus - Wikipedia .html text/html 1532 198 61 J. Rose's edition (1934) of Hygini Fabulae,[3] wondered "at the caprices of Fortune who has allowed many of the plays of an Aeschylus, the larger portion of Livy's histories, and other priceless treasures to perish, while this school-boy's exercise has survived to become the pabulum of scholarly effort." Hyginus' compilation represents in primitive form what every educated Roman in the age of the Antonines was expected to know of Greek myth, at the simplest level. Like the Fabulae, the Astronomica is a collection of abridgements, and the style and level of Latin competence and the elementary mistakes (especially in the rendering of the Greek originals) were held by the anonymous contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911), to prove that they cannot have been the work of "so distinguished" a scholar as C. 42; the article is in the way of a set of marginalia to Rose's edition of Fabulae. Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7060.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7060.txt