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title: "Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts (Records of Western Civilization Series)"
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# Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts (Records of Western Civilization Series)

**Brand:** william harris stahlrichard johnsone. l. burge
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## Customer Reviews

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    Five Stars
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 22, 2017*

Magnificent translation of one of the great classics of the Western humanities and Liberal Arts tradition!

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    Good item
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 6, 2018*

Very pleased.

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    We are lucky to have a translation of this by Stahl
  

*by J***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 5, 2016*

I have heard several times that the Marriage of Philology and Mercury is hard to read in the Latin. Furthermore, I have found no rich veins of intellectual history in it. But it is an important and widely read Latin work that epitomizes in a simple way the disciplines of Grammar, Dialectic (=logic), Rhetoric, Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy, and Harmony. Apparently the famous curriculum of the Seven Liberal Arts was made canonical by this work. We are lucky that a scholar of Stahl's powers chose to translate and comment on this work; Stahl was the leading scholar of Roman intellectual history, and the footnotes to the translation helpfully show connections to various lesser known works, like the Logic of Apuleius.I care about the history of mathematics and logic, and thus was interested in the quadrivium speeches and the speech of Dialectic, which covers material from Aristotle's Categories, a little from On Interpretation, and some more from Prior Analytics. Much of Book VI, the speech of Geometry, is about physical geography, because of the etymology of the word geometry. I was surprised that in Book VII, the speech of Arithmetic, Martianus describes the Euclidean algorithm (in section 785); he does not prove it but even describing it is a much higher level than the rest of Book VII. Because there are good cross references, it is probably best to scan the book for particular topics to see how Martianus explains them, e.g. how a later Latin writer understood syllogisms or the five predicables (genus, species, difference, property, accident).Stahl also translated Macrobius, 
  
Commentary on the Dream of Scipio by Macrobius (Records of Western Civilization Series) (Records of Western Civilization (Paperback))







  
  
    . The commentary by Stahl, Johnson and Burge is a separate volume, 
  
Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts: The Quadrivium of Martianus Capella, Latin Trad. (Records of Western Civilization Series)







  
  
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