Title: Ireland and Juvenal ii 160
Andrew Charles BREEZE
University
of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain
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.
Keywords:
Juvenal, Ireland, Toponymy
How to Cite this Paper:
Breeze, A. C. (2024). Ireland and Juvenal ii 160. ATRAS Journal, 05 (2), 180-188
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