TY - BOOK ID - 3488325 TI - Proba the Prophet : the Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba AU - Cullhed, Sigrid Schottenius AU - Proba PY - 2015 VL - 378 SN - 9789004264724 9789004289482 9004264728 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Centos KW - Centon KW - History and criticism. KW - Histoire et critique KW - Proba, KW - Bible KW - In literature. KW - History and criticism KW - Centos. KW - Literature. KW - Bible. KW - Cento (Proba). KW - Centos - History and criticism KW - Proba, - active 4th century. - Cento UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3488325 AB - In Proba the Prophet: The Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed offers an in-depth study and reappraisal of the Cento of Proba and its reception. Proba's poem belongs to the few extant Latin texts from Antiquity penned by a woman writer, and one of the oldest Christian Latin poems. Schottenius Cullhed surveys and challenges common preconceptions and biographical constructions of the poem's author and early readers, and examines their impact on interpretations and evaluations of the text. The author also develops and puts to use an alternative model for understanding the poem and convincingly shows how the Virgilian source texts form a complex net of internal and external Biblical typologies within the Cento. -- ER -