THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE OF ORIGINAL SIN, BY FULGENTIUS, THE MYTHOGRAPHER

ALIPOGRAMMATIC TRANSLATION OF BOOK I OF DE AETATIBUS MUNDI ET HOMINIS

Abstract

The present work is part of our double translation project
of the lipogram De aetatibus mundi et hominis. At this moment, we
provide a proposal for an alipogrammatic academic translation of
its Book I. This composition is usually attributed to the African and
late author Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, known by the epithet
Mythographer. In the section translated here, the Original Sin
narrative, relating to Adam and Eve, is described, avoiding the use
of lexical units containing the letter 'a'. Before the translation itself,
I once again discuss basic aspects related to the author, the work
under study and our translation project, as I also did in the works
on Lactantius and Ausonius, since I dedicate myself to the study of
understudied writers. Finally, it should be stressed that this
lipogrammatic conformation is not maintained in this proposed
translation text, because it seeks to privilege fluency in the reading
process and promote access to the thematic content of the Latin
source text, referring to the Rudolf Helm's critical edition (1898).