Prudentius (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) was born in 348 CE
probably at Caesaraugusta (Saragossa) and lived mostly in
northeastern Spain, but visited Rome between 400 and 405. His
parents, presumably Christian, had him educated in literature and
rhetoric. He became a barrister and at least once later on an
administrator; he afterwards received some high honour from Emperor
Theodosius. Prudentius was a strong Christian who admired the old
pagan literature and art, especially the great Latin poets whose
forms he used. He looked on the Roman achievement in history as a
preparation for the coming of Christ and the triumph of a spiritual
empire.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of the poems of Prudentius is
in two volumes. Volume I presents: "Preface" ("Praefatio"); "The
Daily Round" ("Liber Cathemerinon"); 12 literary and attractive
hymns, parts of which have been included in the Breviary and in
modern hymnals; "The Divinity of Christ" ("Apotheosis"), which
maintains the Trinity and attacks those who denied the distinct
personal being of Christ; "The Origin of Sin" ("Hamartigenia")
attacking the separation of the 'strict' God of the Old Testament
from the 'good' God revealed by Christ; "Fight for Mansoul"
("Psychomachia"), which describes the struggle between (Christian)
Virtues and (Pagan) Vices; and the first book of "Against the
Address of Symmachus" ("Contra Orationem Symmachi"), in which pagan
gods are assailed.
The second volume contains the second book of "Against the
Address of Symmachus," opposing a petition for the replacement of
an altar and statue of Victory; "Crowns of Martyrdom"
("Peristephanon Liber"), 14 hymns to martyrs mostly of Spain;
"Lines To Be Inscribedunder Scenes from History" ("Tituli
Historiarum"), 49 four-line stanzas which are inscriptions for
scenes from the Bible depicted on the walls of a church; and an
Epilogue.
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