
An exhaustive study of Claudian's unfinished mythological epic, with a text, apparatus criticus, and commentary. The long introduction begins with a catalogue of manuscripts; and this leads to an investigation into the manuscript tradition and the history of the poem's transmission...


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Claudian was one of the last great Latin poets of the classical tradition, writing in the fourth century A.D. This simplified text of his poem, De Raptu Prosperpinae, has a facing-page translation to make the work more accessible to non-specialists. This book sets Claudian in...

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"De Raptu Proserpinae," from Claudianus Claudianus. Claudianus Claudianus, usually known in English as Claudian (370-404 AD), was a Latin poet associated with the court of the emperor Honorius at Mediolanum, and particularly with the general Stilicho.

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