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Prudentius' Psychomachia - A Reexamination (Paperback)
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Prudentius' Psychomachia - A Reexamination (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Prudentius' Psychomachia, written about A.D. 405, has been studied
by classicists, medievalists, and general literary historians.
Nevertheless, scholars have barely explored the allegory's inner
workings or related it to its historical context. The present study
remedies this critical neglect and its attendant misreadings. The
author arrives at a coherent, unified interpretation by examining
the work's major features in relation to the poet's life and times.
He contends that the poet balanced an affirmation of Christian
allegory with an ironic negation of pagan literary tradition. For
this remarkable achievement his audience was the aristocracy, still
largely pagan at a time of intense antagonism between the Church
and old Roman religious institutions. Originally published in 1976.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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