The sphere of Saturn (Cicero, “De re publica”, 6.17)

dc.contributor.authorCancela Cilleruelo, Álvaro
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-05T17:48:34Z
dc.date.available2025-06-05T17:48:34Z
dc.date.issued2022-09
dc.descriptionThis paper appears as a part of the Research Project “El género consolatorio en época tardoantigua: estudio y edición crítica del ‘De consolatione in aduersis’ (y otros textos tardíos y altomedievales)”, “Programa Logos – Fundación BBVA de Ayudas a la Investigación en el Área de Estudios Clásicos”, Convocatoria 2019.
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT: This paper argues that at Cicero, "De re publica" 6.17 the manuscript text “unum globum” should be kept instead of the conjecture “summum globum”. This conjecture is unanimously attributed to Fr. Boll (1910), but it was proposed already in 1790 by G.W. Maier. The use of “unus” in this context, in which the set of harmonic spheres of our cosmos is described, can be explained as an alternative to “primus” when referring to the first element of a sequence; further instances in Cicero’s works support this interpretation.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Filología Clásica
dc.description.facultyFac. de Filología
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.sponsorshipFundación BBVA
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dc.identifier.citationCancela Cilleruelo, Álvaro. «The sphere of Saturn (Cicero, “De re publica”, 6.17)». Hermes , vol. 150, n.º 3, septiembre de 2022, pp. 369-375, https://doi.org/10.25162/hermes-2022-0024.
dc.identifier.doi10.25162/hermes-2022-0024
dc.identifier.essn2365-3116
dc.identifier.issn0018-0777
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120998
dc.issue.number3
dc.journal.titleHermes : Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie
dc.language.isoeng
dc.page.final375
dc.page.initial369
dc.publisherFranz Steiner Verlag
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dc.subject.cdu821.124Cicerón, Marco Tulio7der.08
dc.subject.cdu801.73
dc.subject.keywordDe re publica
dc.subject.keywordDe re publica
dc.subject.keywordNumerals
dc.subject.keywordTextual criticism
dc.subject.keywordAncient astronomy
dc.subject.ucmFilología latina
dc.subject.ucmCrítica textual
dc.subject.unesco5505.10 Filología
dc.subject.unesco6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
dc.titleThe sphere of Saturn (Cicero, “De re publica”, 6.17)
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