Ireland and Juvenal ii 160

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  • Andrew Charles BREEZE University of Navarre, Pamplona Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70091/Atras/vol05no2.14

Keywords:

Juvenal, Ireland, Toponymy

Abstract

Like any authority, A. E. Housman’s edition of the Roman satirist Juvenal remains a source for research, including notes in The Housman Society Journal on Rutupiae in the fourth satire or ‘Thule’ in the fifteenth. The former is Richborough, Kent; the latter seems to be Iceland, for ‘Thule’ is apparently a corruption of Greek Thymele ‘altar-slab’. It implies that the explorer Pytheas discovered Iceland in about 306 BCE, the island’s volcanoes and block-like appearance reminding him of fire on an altar. If so, it shows how perception of landscape supports emendation.

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