Panegyricus de Sexto Consulatu Honorii AugustiClaudian is often called the last Latin poet of the classical tradition. This is the first ever English edition of his last extant work, complete with an introduction, newly edited text, facing English translation, and richly detailed commentary. The De Sexto Consulatu Honorii shows Claudian at the height of his considerable powers. A superb example of the literature of Late Antiquity, it records in exquisite and glittering verse the splendour of the Western Imperial Court, and is also a unique historical witness to the events and attitudes of the last years of the Roman Empire. The poem celebrates the defeat of Alaric the Visigoth's first invasion of Italy in AD 402 and ironically, predicts that he will never trouble the Romans again. Only a few years later, in AD 410, Alaric took Rome itself - the first capture of the city by a foreign army in eight centuries - thus shaking to the foundations the ancient world's perceptions of Rome's imperial destiny. |
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... [ Claudian ] was tolerant of Christianity . " 13 As for Claudian's panegyrics and epics , they are wholly pagan in their conception and in their traditional literary form , but not one whit more so than those of Sidonius Apollinaris , who ...
... [ Claudian ] was tolerant of Christianity . " 13 As for Claudian's panegyrics and epics , they are wholly pagan in their conception and in their traditional literary form , but not one whit more so than those of Sidonius Apollinaris , who ...
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... Claudian's verse is its extraordinary fluidity , a smoothness which his harsher critics go so far as to call monotonous . " This quality is the result of the repeated use of the same metrical patterns , the avoidance of elision , and ...
... Claudian's verse is its extraordinary fluidity , a smoothness which his harsher critics go so far as to call monotonous . " This quality is the result of the repeated use of the same metrical patterns , the avoidance of elision , and ...
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... Claudian , whose average is calculated by Cameron at about one every eighteen lines ; contrast Virgil's rate of one ... Claudian's usual metrical practice must be taken into account in evaluating the conjectures uigili ( Gesner , pr . 8 ) ...
... Claudian , whose average is calculated by Cameron at about one every eighteen lines ; contrast Virgil's rate of one ... Claudian's usual metrical practice must be taken into account in evaluating the conjectures uigili ( Gesner , pr . 8 ) ...
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