TY - BOOK ID - 3444344 TI - Claudian and the Roman epic tradition PY - 2012 SN - 9781107013438 1107013437 9781139004152 1139411470 1107229502 1139422839 9786613659934 1139419811 1139421867 1139423908 1139417762 1139004158 128068299X 9781139423908 9781280682995 9781139421867 9781139419819 9781107229501 9781139411479 6613659932 9781139422833 9781139417761 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Epic poetry, Classical KW - History and criticism. KW - Claudianus, Claudius KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Rome KW - In literature. KW - History and criticism KW - Claudien KW - Claudius Claudianus KW - Claudiano, Claudio KW - Claudian KW - Claudià, Claudi KW - Klavdian KW - Клавдиан KW - Klavdian, Klavdiĭ KW - Клавдиан, Клавдий KW - Pseudo-Claudianus KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3444344 AB - The historical importance of Claudian as writer of panegyric and propaganda for the court of Honorius is well established but his poetry has been comparatively neglected: only recently has his work been the subject of modern literary criticism. Taking as its starting point Claudian's claim to be the heir to Virgil, this book examines his poetry as part of the Roman epic tradition. Discussing first what we understand by epic and its relevance for late antiquity, Catherine Ware argues that, like Virgil and later Roman epic poets, Claudian analyses his contemporary world in terms of classical epic. Engaging intertextually with his literary predecessors, Claudian updates concepts such as furor and concordia, redefining Romanitas to exclude the increasingly hostile east, depicting enemies of the west as new Giants and showing how the government of Honorius and his chief minister, Stilicho, have brought about a true golden age for the west. ER -