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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... further to the south - west , in the vicinity of Pollentia , with Stilicho in close pursuit . Battle was joined on Easter Day , 6 April 402 , violating the holiest feast of the Christian calendar and occasioning a great deal 58 ...
... further to the south - west , in the vicinity of Pollentia , with Stilicho in close pursuit . Battle was joined on Easter Day , 6 April 402 , violating the holiest feast of the Christian calendar and occasioning a great deal 58 ...
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... Further traces of this tradition appear at Apollonius Rhodius , at 2. 674f . , where the Argonauts see the god on his way from Lycia to the Hyperboreans , and 4. 611f . , where a picturesque aetiology for amber attributes to the Celts ...
... Further traces of this tradition appear at Apollonius Rhodius , at 2. 674f . , where the Argonauts see the god on his way from Lycia to the Hyperboreans , and 4. 611f . , where a picturesque aetiology for amber attributes to the Celts ...
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... further Sittl , Die Gebärden der Griechen und Römer ( 71f.n. ) , 51f . 575f . The wearing of crests , made of feathers and up to half a metre high , seems originally to have been intended to inspire fear in the enemy by increasing the ...
... further Sittl , Die Gebärden der Griechen und Römer ( 71f.n. ) , 51f . 575f . The wearing of crests , made of feathers and up to half a metre high , seems originally to have been intended to inspire fear in the enemy by increasing the ...
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