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Education, Religion, and Literary Culture in the 4th Century CE - A Study of the Underworld Topos in Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae (Hardcover, 1. Auflage ed.)
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Education, Religion, and Literary Culture in the 4th Century CE - A Study of the Underworld Topos in Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae (Hardcover, 1. Auflage ed.)
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This book contextualizes Claudian's handling of the Proserpina myth
and the underworld in the history of literature and religion while
showing intersections with and differences between the literary and
religious uses of the underworld topos. In doing so, the study
provides an incentive to rethink the dichotomy of the terms
"religious" and "non-religious" in favour of a more nuanced model
of references and refunctionalisations of elements which are, or
could be, religiously connotated. A close philological analysis of
De raptu Proserpinae identifies the sphere of myth and poetry as an
area of expressive freedom, a parallel universe to theological
discourses (whether they be pagan-philosophical or Christian),
while the profound understanding and skilful use of this particular
sphere "a formative aspect of European religious and intellectual
history" is postulated as a characteristic of the educated Roman
and of Claudian's poetry.
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