The Complete Works of Claudian
The Complete Works of Claudian This volume offers a modern, accurate, and accessible translation of Claudian's work, published in English for the first time since 1922, and accompanied by detailed…
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The Complete Works of Claudian
This volume offers a modern, accurate, and accessible translation of Claudian's work, published in English for the first time since 1922, and accompanied by detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary.Claudian (active 395-404 CE) was the last of the great classical Latin poets. Claudian also wrote poems in praise of rulers, including the emperor Honorius and the regent Flavius Stilicho, which are essential sources for reconstructing politics and society in the late Roman empire. His best-known work, The Rape of Proserpina, continues to inspire numerous retellings and adaptations.
These poems and others are translated here, alongside an introduction offering an overview of Claudian's career, the wider historical and political context of the period, and the poetic traditions in which Claudian wrote: mythological epic, panegyric, invective, and epithalamium. The
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