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Claudian's In Eutropium: Or, How, When, and Why to Slander a Eunuch
Abuse [Verbal ] --- Gros mots --- Injures --- Insultes --- Insults --- Insults [Verbal ] --- Invective --- Invectives --- Scheldwoorden --- Verbal abuse --- Vituperation --- Vitupérations --- Eunuchs --- Abuse, Verbal --- Insults, Verbal --- Satire --- Men --- Claudianus, Claudius. --- Eutropius, --- Rome --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- History --- Historiography. --- Claudianus, Claudius --- Honorius --- Historiography --- Language and languages --- Invective.
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The chaotic events of A.D. 395-400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long propose a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of these years. Our knowledge of the period comes to us in part through Synesius of Cyrene, who recorded his view of events in his De regno and De providentia. By redating these works, Cameron and Long offer a vital new interpretation of the interactions of pagans and Christians, Goths and Romans. In 394/95, during the last four months of his life, the emperor Theodosius I ruled as sole Augustus over a united Roman Empire that had been divided between at least two emperors for most of the preceding one hundred years. Not only did the death of Theodosius set off a struggle between Roman officeholders of the two empires, but it also set off renewed efforts by the barbarian Goths to seize both territory and office. Theodosius had encouraged high-ranking Goths to enter Roman military service; thus well placed, their efforts would lead to Alaric's sack of Rome in 410. Though the authors' interest is in the particularities of events, Barbarians and Politics at the Court Of Arcadius conveys a wonderful sense of the general time and place. Cameron and Long's rebuttal of modern scholarship, which pervades the narrative, enhances the reader's engagement with the complexities of interpretation. The result is a sophisticated recounting of a period of crucial change in the Roman Empire's relationship to the non-Roman world. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
Authors, Greek --- Goths in literature. --- Goths --- Biography. --- Historiography. --- Allegory --- Byzantine Empire in literature --- Goths in literature --- Allégorie --- Ecrivains grecs --- Biography --- Historiography --- Biographie --- Historiographie --- Arcadius, --- Synesius, --- Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- History --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Personification in literature --- Symbolism in literature --- Ethnology --- Germanic peoples --- Cyrene, Synesius of, --- Qūrīnāʼī, Sūnisiyūs, --- Sinesio, --- Sūnisiyūs al-Qūrīnāʼī, --- Sūnisiyūs, --- Synésios, --- Synesios, --- Synesius Cyrenaeus, --- Arcadius --- Flavius Arcadius --- In literature. --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- Allegory. --- Authors, Greek - Biography. --- Goths - Historiography. --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- de Cyrene, Synesius --- Cyrene, Synesius de
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Der spätantike Dichter Claudian erlebt seit über dreißig Jahren eine anhaltende Renaissance des Interesses an seinem Werk. So lässt sich eine gewisse Rehabilitation des Künstlers Claudian konstatieren, seine Stellung innerhalb der Entwicklung der lateinischen Dichtung aber ist dennoch bisher keiner kritischen Würdigung unterzogen worden. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert die Ergebnisse der ersten Claudian-Tagung überhaupt. In neuen Beiträgen von Gelehrten wie Franca Ela Consolino, Manfred Fuhrmann, Siegmar Döpp, Isabella Gualandri, Jacqueline Long und Peter Lebrecht Schmidt, aber auch einer Reihe jüngerer Claudian-Forscher werden das literatur- und geistesgeschichtliche Umfeld, Themen und Motive, Ästhetik, Überlieferung und Rezeption der Werke Claudians behandelt. So entsteht ein Eindruck nicht nur von der Einheit eines Gesamtwerks, in dem politische und mythologische Epik, Epigramme und Elegien einander ergänzen und beleuchten, sondern auch von der Einheit Claudians mit seiner Epoche und von der Einheitlichkeit eines Claudian-Bildes, das durch die Forschung der vergangenen Jahrzehnte an Kontur gewonnen hat. The late-antique Roman poet Claudian has enjoyed an upsurge of interest in his work for some thirty years. In spite of increasing appreciation for his artistry, Claudian's position within the history of Latin literature has not been clearly defined. This volume presents the results of the first symposium ever devoted to Claudian and Latin literature. Well-known scholars such as Franca Ela Consolino, Manfred Fuhrmann, Siegmar Döpp, Isabella Gualandri, Jacqueline Long, and Peter Lebrecht Schmidt join several younger scholars to cast new light on the literary and cultural context of Claudian's works, on his themes and preoccupations, his aesthetics, and on the later reception of his work. The different contributions together give a sense not only of unity within the varied corpus of Claudian's poetry, which comprises political and mythological epic, epigrams, and elegies, but also of how much Claudian is representative of the major trends of his times. Finally, the book shows how far modern criticism has advanced towards an integrated understanding of Claudian's work.
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