Catherine Ware

Claudian and the Roman Epic Tradition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As the self-styled successor of Virgil, Claudian redefines the world of late antiquity in terms of classical Latin epic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781107013438
• ISBN-10: 1107013437
• Artikelnr.: 34884948

Autorenporträt

Catherine Ware is currently undertaking research at the University of Liverpool after having been awarded a mobility post-doctoral fellowship by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Specialising in the epic tradition and the literature of late antiquity, she is now working on the Panegyrici Latini project, preparing commentaries on two of the speeches in honour of the emperor Constantine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Panegyric-epic
2. Roman epic
3. Defining the empire
4. Cycles of time
5. Enemies of Roman order
6. The golden age I: Virgil and Claudian
7. The golden age II: the individual.