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Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity offers a thematic
analysis of the poetry of the late Latin poet Prudentius, focusing
in particular on his descriptions of the geographical and cultural
landscapes of late antiquity. Cillian O'Hogan sets Prudentius in
the context of other late antique authors, including Lactantius,
Jerome, Augustine, and Endelechius, and argues that the poet makes
use of allusion to Augustan and early imperial Latin authors to
present the late Roman landscape as one markedly altered by the
arrival of Christianity, though retaining the grandeur of the pagan
past. This volume examines his conception of the world as a text,
his use of intertextuality to describe literary journeys, his view
of the civic function of Christian martyrdom, his conception of
heaven, and his attitude towards art and architecture, combining
philological and intertextual criticism with approaches drawn from
the fields of book history, cultural geography, and theology to
paint a fuller and richer picture of the greatest of the Christian
Latin poets.
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