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Martianus Capella
Latin prose writer of Late Antiquity
"Martianus" redirects here. For the Carolingian scholar, see Martianus Hiberniensis. For the Roman freedman, see Icelus Martianus.
Martianus Minneus Felix Capella (fl. c. 410–420) was a jurist, polymath and Latin prose writer of late antiquity, one of the earliest developers of the system of the seven liberal arts that structured early medieval education.[1][2][3][4] He was a native of Madaura.
His single encyclopedic work, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii ("On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury"), also called De septem disciplinis ("On the seven disciplines"), is an elaborate didactic allegory written in a mixture of prose and elaborately allusive verse.
Martianus often presents philosophical views based on Neoplatonism, the Platonic school of philosophy pioneered by Plotinus and his followers.[5]
Like his near-contemporary Macrobius, who