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Claudian the poet
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ISBN: 9781107058347 1107058341 9781107415645 9781107678064 1108564992 1107415640 1108614337 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Cambridge University Press,

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"This comprehensive reassessment of the carmina maiora of the fourth-century poet Claudian contributes to the growing trend to recognize that Late Antique poets should be approached as just that: poets. Its methodology is developed from that of Michael Roberts' seminal The Jeweled Style. It analyzes Claudian's poetics and use of story telling to argue that the creation of a story world in which Stilicho, his patron, becomes an epic hero, and the barbarians are giants threatening both the borders of Rome and the order of the very universe is designed to convince his audience of a world-view in which it is only the Roman general who stands between them and cosmic chaos. The book also argues that Claudian uses the same techniques to promote the message that Honorius, young hero though he may seem, is not yet fit to rule, and that Stilicho's rightful position remains as his regent"--


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Claudien : poète du monde à la cour d'Occident
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ISSN: 12846325 ISBN: 9782701802800 2701802806 Year: 2010 Volume: *6 Publisher: Paris : De Boccard,


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Claudians praefationes : Bedingungen, Beschreibungen und Wirkungen einer poetischen Kleinform
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ISBN: 3110961245 3598776799 Year: 2011 Publisher: Leipzig : B. G. Teubner,

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