Claudian's Panegyric on the Fourth Consulate of Honorius: Text, Translation and Commentary - Couverture souple

Barr, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0905205111 ISBN 13 : 9780905205113

Editeur : Francis Cairns Publications Ltd, 1981

Synopsis

Claudius Claudianus (fl. circa 400 AD) was one of the last major poets of the Roman Empire. Highly regarded by his contemporaries, he is one of the great transmitters of Latin culture to Medieval Europe. The Panegyric on the IVth Consulate of the Emperor Honorius, written for an important state occasion, ranks among his major works. Its core is a detailed discourse on kingship, a subject of paramount interest which the Middle Ages inherited from antiquity; and in its entirety it is an interestingly worked example of formal encomium - the praise of a ruler. William Barr's translation sets out to render Claudian's Latin hexameter verses closely in clear modern English prose. A full introduction and detailed commentary reveal the rhetorical and contemporary background of the poem. The rich literary and rhetorical traditions to which Claudian was heir do not detract from his orginality and resourcefulness in writing a serious and powerful poem which does not entirely disguise the precarious state in which the Empire then existed.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Francis Cairns Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0905205111
• ISBN 13: 9780905205113
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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