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De Raptu Prosperpinae (Hardcover, Revised)
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De Raptu Prosperpinae (Hardcover, Revised)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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Claudian was one of the last great Latin poets of the classical
tradition, writing at the imperial court in Milan in the late
fourth to early fifth century AD. With the current upsurge of
research into late antiquity, he is a figure of great interest who
has been undeservedly neglected - a creative artist with an immense
knowledge of classical literature and a distinctive literary style.
His works have been mined for what they reveal about the history of
the period, as he largely wrote political propaganda for members of
the court circle; but the De Raptu Proserpinae is fascinating in
that it shows him working with subject matter of more personal
choice. J. B. Hall has already produced two editions of the work,
which deal exhaustively with the complicated manuscript traditions;
but he self-confessedly leaves aside literary questions, which are
the subject of this commentary. This is therefore the first study
to look at the poem as a work of literary interest in its own
right. The book includes a text designed to simplify Hall's
apparatus, and a facing translation to make the work more
accessible to non-specialists.
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