Description: Further DetailsTitle: On Stilicho’s Consulship 2–3. Panegyric on the Sixth Consulship of Honorius. The Gothic War. Shorter Poems. Rape of ProserpinaCondition: NewEAN: 9780674991514ISBN: 9780674991514Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/01/1922Item Height: 162mmItem Length: 108mmItem Weight: 281gTranslator: M. PlatnauerContributor: M. Platnauer (Translated by)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0674991516Description: Late antique court poetry.Claudius Claudianus, Latin poet of great affairs, flourished during the joint reigns (AD 394–5 onwards) of the brothers Honorius (Emperor in the West) and Arcadius (in the East). Apparently a native of Greek Alexandria in Egypt, he was, to judge by his name, of Roman descent, though his first writings were in Greek, and his pure Latin may have been learned as a foreign language. About AD 395 he moved to Italy (Milan and Rome) and though really a pagan, became a professional court poet composing for Christian rulers works which give us important knowledge of Honorius’ time. A panegyric on the brothers Probinus and Olybrius (consuls together in 395) was followed in the subsequent ten years by other poems (mostly epics in hexameters): in praise of consulships of Honorius (AD 395, 398, 404); against the Byzantine ministers Rufinus (396) and Eutropius (399); in praise of the consulship (400) of Stilicho (Honorius’ guardian, general, and minister); in praise of Stilicho’s wife Serena; mixed metres on the marriage of Honorius to their daughter Maria; on the war with the rebel Gildo in Africa (398); on the Getic or Gothic war (402); on Stilicho’s success against the Goth Alaric (403); on the consulship of Manlius Theodorus (399); and on the wedding of Palladius and Celerina. He also composed non-official poems such as the three books of a mythological epic on the Rape of Proserpina, unfinished as was also a Battle of Giants (in Greek). Noteworthy are Phoenix, Senex Veronensis, elegiac prefaces, and the epistles, epigrams, and idylls. Through the patronage of Stilicho or through Serena, Claudius in 404 married well in Africa and was granted a statue in Rome. Nothing is known of him after 404. In his works can be found true poetic as well as rhetorical skill, command of language, polished style, diversity, vigor, satire, dignity, bombast, artificiality, flattery, and other virtues and faults of the age. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Claudian is in two volumes.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Loeb Classical LibraryAuthor: ClaudianItem Width: 25mmRelease Year: 1922 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: On Stilicho’s Consulship 2–3. Panegyric on the Sixth Consulship o
Title: On Stilicho’s Consulship 2–3. Panegyric on the Sixth Consulship o
EAN: 9780674991514
ISBN: 9780674991514
Release Date: 01/01/1922
Release Year: 1922
Translator: M. Platnauer
Contributor: M. Platnauer (Translated by)
ISBN-10: 0674991516
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Loeb Classical Library
Book Title: Claudian, Volume II : On Stilicho's Consulship 2-3. Panegyric on the Sixth Consulship of Honorius. the Gothic War. Shorter Poems. Rape of Proserpina
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Topic: Ancient / Rome, Ancient & Classical
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 1922
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Poetry, History
Item Weight: 20 oz
Author: Claudian
Item Length: 6.6 in
Book Series: Loeb Classical Library
Item Width: 4.3 in
Format: Hardcover
