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Hosidius Geta (/ˈɡɛtə/ GHET-ə; fl. late 2nd – early 3rd century AD) was a Roman playwright. Tertullian refers to him as his contemporary in the De Prescriptione Haereticorum.
Geta was the author of a tragedy in 462 verses titled Medea. It is the earliest known example of a Virgilian cento, that is, a poem constructed entirely out of lines and half-lines from the works of Virgil. The poet used Virgilian hexameters for the spoken parts of the play, and half-hexameters for the choral parts.
Bibliography
- Text edited by R. Lamacchia, Medea. Cento Vergilianus (Teubner, 1981)
- Text, Translation, and Commentary by Maria Teresa Galli . Vertumnus. Berliner Beiträge zur Klassischen Philologie und zu ihren Nachbargebieten, vol. 10, Göttingen: Edition Ruprecht 2017, ISBN 978-3-8469-0121-2
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Further reading
- Anke Rondholz. The Versatile Needle: Hosidius Geta’s Cento “Medea” and Its Tradition. 1st ed. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012. doi:10.1515/9783110283860.
- Philip Hardie, "Polyphony or Babel? Hosidius Geta's Medea and the poetics of the cento," in Simon Swain, Stephen Harrison and Jas Elsner (eds), Severan culture (Cambridge, CUP, 2007).
- Scott C. McGill, "Tragic Vergil: rewriting Vergil as a tragedy in the Cento « Medea »," Classical World 95 (2001–2002) 143–161.
- Giovanni Salanitro, "Osidio Geta e la poesia centonaria," ANRW 2.34.3: 2314–2360.
- N. Dane, "The Medea of Hosidius Geta," Classical Journal 46 (1950) 75–78.
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