Reading Sin in the World: The Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the Vocation of the Responsible Reader - Softcover

Dykes, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107519098 ISBN 13: 9781107519091

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Prudentius is one of the major Latin poets of antiquity. This major new study of his didactic poem, the Hamartigenia, which explores the origins of evil and its workings in the world, is striking for being as seriously interested in its theological as in its literary contribution.

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Prudentius is one of the major Latin poets of antiquity. A Christian living and writing in Spain in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, he was thoroughly imbued with the whole tradition of Latin poetry. The Hamartigenia is a didactic poem exploring the origins of evil and how it operates in the world. It is full of echoes and reworkings of earlier poems by Lucretius, Virgil and others, but is also a serious contribution to this important theological issue which was much discussed in Church circles of the day. This is a major new study of the Hamartigenia in the context of Prudentius' work as a whole and is striking for being as seriously interested in its theological as in its literary contribution.

Biografía del autor:

Anthony Dykes is a Research Fellow in the Department of Classics at the University of Manchester. This is his first book.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1107519098
• ISBN 13: 9781107519091
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294