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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... Gothic homeland within the Empire that he craved , and his motives for once more risking war remain obscure . Possibly the resources of Illyricum had been exhausted , or else the Goths may have been feeling pressure to move westwards as ...
... Gothic homeland within the Empire that he craved , and his motives for once more risking war remain obscure . Possibly the resources of Illyricum had been exhausted , or else the Goths may have been feeling pressure to move westwards as ...
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... Goths sought land not for farm- ing but for ' billeting ' ( hospitalitas ) , Heather , locc . citt . , makes a compelling case for the likeli- hood that the Goths did indeed require land for permanent agricultural settlement . VI Cons ...
... Goths sought land not for farm- ing but for ' billeting ' ( hospitalitas ) , Heather , locc . citt . , makes a compelling case for the likeli- hood that the Goths did indeed require land for permanent agricultural settlement . VI Cons ...
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... Goths : see Levy on Ruf . 1 . 308 , Schroff on Get . pr . 6. The Goths had long been settled in Thrace ( Wolfram 117ff . ) , and it was the custom , especially in poetry and in prose that aimed at sublimity , to give tribes inhabiting ...
... Goths : see Levy on Ruf . 1 . 308 , Schroff on Get . pr . 6. The Goths had long been settled in Thrace ( Wolfram 117ff . ) , and it was the custom , especially in poetry and in prose that aimed at sublimity , to give tribes inhabiting ...
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