Background
Avienus was born in 305. He was a native of Volsinii in Etruria, from the distinguished family of the Rufii Festi.
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Carmina; (Latin Edition)
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Ora Maritima
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Descriptio Orbis Terrae... (Latin Edition)
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Rufi Festi Avieni Aratea (Classic Reprint) (Latin Edition)
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Rufi Festi Avieni Aratea - Primary Source Edition (Latin Edition)
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Opera...
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Postumius Rufius Festus Avienus
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Avienus, Postumius Rufius Festus
Career
He was probably proconsul of Africa (366) and of Achaia (372).
Avienus made somewhat inexact translations into Latin of Aratus' didactic poem Phaenomena. He also took a popular Greek poem in hexameters, Periegesis, briefly delimiting the habitable world from the perspective of Alexandria, written by Dionysius Periegetes in a terse and elegant style that was easy to memorize for students, and translated it into an archaising Latin as his Descriptio orbis terrae ("Description of the World's Lands"). Only Book I survives, with an unsteady grasp of actual geography and some far-fetched etymologies.
Avienus wrote Ora Maritima ("Sea Coasts"), a poem claimed to contain borrowings from the 6th-century BC Massiliote Periplus.
Ora Maritima includes reference to the islands of Ierne and Albion, Ireland and Britain, whose inhabitants reputedly traded with the Oestrymnides of Brittany. The work was dedicated to Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus.
He died in 375.
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Rufi Festi Avieni Aratea (Classic Reprint) (Latin Edition)
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Carmina; (Latin Edition)
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Descriptio Orbis Terrae... (Latin Edition)
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Rufi Festi Avieni Aratea - Primary Source Edition (Latin Edition)
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Opera...
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Ora Maritima
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Rufi Festi Avieni Aratea (Classic Reprint) (Latin Edition)
Religion
Avienus was a pagan and a staunch supporter of the old religion.
Connections
Festus married Placidia. They had several children, including a son named Placidius.
