Composed in Germany by a monastic poet steeped in classical lore
and letters, the Satires of Amarcius (Sextus Amarcius Gallus
Piosistratus) unrelentingly attack both secular vices and
ecclesiastical abuses of the late eleventh century. The verses echo
Horace and Prudentius, are laced with proverbs and polemic, and
portray vividly aspects of contemporary life the foppery of young
nobles, the vainglory of the nouveaux riches, the fastidiousness of
debauched gluttons. This is the first English translation of the
Satires.
The "Eupolemius "is a late-eleventh-century Latin epic that
recasts salvation history, from Lucifer s fall through Christ s
resurrection. The poem fuses Greek and Hebrew components within a
uniquely medieval framework. At once biblical, heroic, and
allegorical, it complements the so-called Bible epics in Latin from
late antiquity and the refashionings of biblical narrative in Old
English verse. It emulates classical Latin epics by Virgil, Lucan,
and Statius and responds creatively to the foundational
personification allegory by the Christian poet Prudentius. The poem
was composed by an anonymous German monk, possibly the author who
used the pseudonym Amarcius. Although it focuses on events of both
the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, it is also rooted in its own
momentous times.
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