Claudian was one of the last great Latin poets of the classical tradition, writing in the fourth century A.D. This simplified text of his poem, De Raptu Prosperpinae, has a facing-page translation to make the work more accessible to non-specialists. This book sets Claudian in his rightful place as a distinctive creative writer of late antiquity with the roots of the whole classical tradition before him. In addition to an incisive commentary, the book includes a text designed to simplify Hall's apparatus.
Claudian was one of the last great Latin poets of the classical tradition, writing in the fourth century A.D. This simplified text of his poem, De Rap...
Claudius Claudianus (fl. circa 400 AD) was one of the last major poets of the Roman Empire. Highly regarded by his contemporaries, he is one of the great transmitters of Latin culture to Medieval Europe. The Panegyric on the IVth Consulate of the Emperor Honorius, written for an important state occasion, ranks among his major works. Its core is a detailed discourse on kingship, a subject of paramount interest which the Middle Ages inherited from antiquity; and in its entirety it is an interestingly worked example of formal encomium - the praise of a ruler. William Barr's translation sets out...
Claudius Claudianus (fl. circa 400 AD) was one of the last major poets of the Roman Empire. Highly regarded by his contemporaries, he is one of the gr...
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and...
Claudius Claudianus Claudius Claudianus John B. Hall
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Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849, has evolved into the world's most venerable and extensive series of editions of Greek an...
"Opera," from Claudianus Claudianus. Claudianus Claudianus, usually known in English as Claudian (370-404 AD), was a Latin poet associated with the court of the emperor Honorius at Mediolanum, and particularly with the general Stilicho.
"Opera," from Claudianus Claudianus. Claudianus Claudianus, usually known in English as Claudian (370-404 AD), was a Latin poet associated with the co...
"De Raptu Proserpinae," from Claudianus Claudianus. Claudianus Claudianus, usually known in English as Claudian (370-404 AD), was a Latin poet associated with the court of the emperor Honorius at Mediolanum, and particularly with the general Stilicho.
"De Raptu Proserpinae," from Claudianus Claudianus. Claudianus Claudianus, usually known in English as Claudian (370-404 AD), was a Latin poet associa...
