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. This book provides a detailed analysis not only of the historical background but above all of Claudian's language, style, imagery, and impressive use of a wide range of Greek and Latin sources. |
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The idea that the sun , or rather the heat of the sun , is ' inflamed by the dust should be seen as a kind of deliberately paradoxical reversal of the more commonplace idea of the sun heating up the dust . The sun's heat is made to seem ...
The idea that the sun , or rather the heat of the sun , is ' inflamed by the dust should be seen as a kind of deliberately paradoxical reversal of the more commonplace idea of the sun heating up the dust . The sun's heat is made to seem ...
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Claudian has kept the idea of grief first preventing and then yielding to impassioned speech , but replaced Virgil's “ loosening a pathway for the voice ' with the somewhat more concrete image of ' loosening the reins ' ( or , to be ...
Claudian has kept the idea of grief first preventing and then yielding to impassioned speech , but replaced Virgil's “ loosening a pathway for the voice ' with the somewhat more concrete image of ' loosening the reins ' ( or , to be ...
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In another variation on the idea , sometimes Janus seems to be thought of as a warmonger and is himself imprisoned ( as in a sense his cult - image was when the gates were closed ) while Peace ranges free throughout the world : Luc .
In another variation on the idea , sometimes Janus seems to be thought of as a warmonger and is himself imprisoned ( as in a sense his cult - image was when the gates were closed ) while Peace ranges free throughout the world : Luc .
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Abbreviations | xiii |
Introduction xvü | 1 |
Text and Translation | 47 |
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