期刊名称：Plekos: Periodicum OnLine zur Erforschung der Kommunikationsstrukturen in der Spätantike
电子版ISSN：1435-9626
出版年度：2018
卷号：20
页码：173
出版社：Institut für Klassische Philologie, Universität München
摘要：The image most often associated with Martin of Tours is of a mounted figure cutting his cloak in half to clothe a beggar. That story comes early in the Life of Martin , written close to the end of the fourth century by his dis- ciple Sulpicus Severus; and the familiarity and ubiquity of that image is just one indication of Martin's immense popularity as one of the first wonder - workers to have lived out his life in western Europe instead of the far - flung (for most readers of Latin) deserts of Egypt or Syria. 1 H ence there is no need for any elaborate justification of this volume by Oxford University Press, containing an introduction, text, English translation and commen- tary on the Life written by Sulpicius; and its attractiveness is guaranteed by the fact that th e scholar who has taken on this task is Philip Burton, an impeccably thoughtful and sensitive guide to the Latin literature of late antiquity. Jacques Fontaine's three - volume French edition in the series Sources chrétiennes has long been the starting - point of any serious research into Sulpicius's Life , and at fifty years old retains its importance; but Bur- ton's edition now sits alongside it as a fundamental resource for anyone with an interest in the Life of Martin , whether novice or specialist.
