De Raptu Prosperpinae
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 25 February 1993
- ISBN 9780198147770
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages340 pages
- Size 224x145x25 mm
- Weight 557 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Claudian was one of the last great Latin poets of the classical tradition, writing in the fourth century AD. J. B. Hall has already produced two editions of his poem De Raptu Proserpinae which deal exhaustively with the complicated manuscript traditions of the work. This book now turns to literary questions, with a simplified text of the poem, and facing-page translation to make the poem more accessible to non-specialists. The book sets Claudian in his rightful place as a distinctive creative writer of late antiquity with the roots of the whole classical tradition before him.
MoreLong description:
Claudian was one of the last great Latin poets of the classical tradition, writing in the fourth century AD. J. B. Hall has already produced two editions of his poem De Raptu Proserpinae which deal exhaustively with the complicated manuscript traditions of the work. But he self-confessedly leaves aside literary questions which are the subject of this commentary. With the current upsurge of research into late antiquity, Claudian is of great interest as one of the foremost poets of the age who has been undeservedly neglected as a creative artist with an immense knowledge of classical literature and a distinctive literary style. His works have been mined for what they can tell us about the history of the late fourth-early fifth century AD, as he largely wrote political propaganda for members of the court circle, but the De Raptu Proserpinae is fascinating for the longest glimpse of him working with subject matter of more personal choice. In addition to the commentary, the book includes a text designed to simplify Hall's apparatus, and a translation to make the work more accessible to non-specialists.
'a long overdue and most welcome addition to the stock of critical writing on late antique literature ... Gruzelier offers readers a no-nonsense introduction, a well-chosen and independent-minded text, a remarkably user-friendly apparatus, a straightforward translation, and, above all, well over two hundred pages of accurate and helpful notes ... the book is splendidly produced (and meticulously proof-read).'
Michael Dewar, University of Calgary, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 4.4 (1993)
