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Martianus Capella
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Martianus Capella: see Capella, Martianus Capella, Martianus , fl. 5th cent.?, Latin writer, b. Carthage. His one famous work, The Marriage of Mercury and Philology, also called the Satyricon and Disciplinae, is a long allegory about the liberal arts.
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Plotinus); he explores and takes us through those interpretations in authors like Martianus Capella (perhaps dates would have helped here for a wider audience), Fulgentius in the 6th century, Boccaccio, who is more complete than Fulgentius as he covers the whole novella, and then Renaissance writers till the 16th-17th century.
H. Hofmann (ed.): Latin Fiction. The Latin Novel in Context by Oikonomou, Maria-Elpiniki / Ancient Narrative
In addition to Martianus Capella, Cassiodorus, and Isidore of Seville, Boethius helped established the curriculum and texts that were central to Western education from the time of Alcuin onward.
The lost millennium: psychology during the Middle Ages by Henley, Tracy B.; Thorne, B. Michael / The Psychological Record
Martianus Capella drew the allegory of grammar as an old woman, punishing and mysterious; she carried a box in which she held knives and other tools to prune the errors from her students.
Gary P. Cestaro. Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body by Alfie, Fabian / Italica
 
 
 
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