For well over a thousand years, from its composition in the early fifth century, the Psychomachia, the great allegory of moral strife within the divided soul by Latin poet Prudentius, remained a fountainhead of poetic and artistic inspiration—Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton all were touched and deeply influenced by it; countless images from wall paintings, manuscripts, sculptures, and stained glass reflected its scenes of violent struggle between personified virtues and vices.
In a lucid and fast-moving English translation, SoulStrife makes this poem available to...
For well over a thousand years, from its composition in the early fifth century, the Psychomachia, the great allegory of moral strife within...
