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"PRUDENTIUS (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) was born in A.D. 348 probably at Caesaraugusta (Saragossa) and lived mostly in north-eastern Spain, but visited Rome between 400 and 405. His parents presumably Christian, had him educated in literature and rhetoric. He became a barrister and at least once later on an administrator, and afterwards received some high honour from Emperor Theodosius. Aged 57 he already felt old, but it is not known when he died. He was a literary man, a poet, a public servant, a loyal Roman and a strong Christian, admiring the old pagan literature and art, especially the great Latin poets whose forms he used. He achieves a reconciliation of the old pagan culture with the newer Christian faith, and looks on the Roman achievement in history as a preparation for the coming of Christ and the triumph of a spiritual empire. When he wrote the Church was supreme, but paganism still lived. Yet Prudentius, though he attacks 'heresies', prefers to display in poetry positive teachings of Christianity."
"The second volume contains the second book of 'Against the Address of Symmachus' opposing a petition of Quintus Symmachus for the replacement of an altar and statue of Victory; 'Crowns of Martyrdom' (Peristephanon Liber) - 14 long and admired hymns to martyrs mostly of Spain; 'Lines to be Inscribed under Scenes from History' (Tituli Historiarum) - 49 four-line stanzas which are inscriptions for scenes from the Bible depicted on the walls of a church; and ['Epilogue' (Epilogos)]."
"Prudentius (born 348 CE) used allegory and classical Latin verse forms in the service of Christianity. His works include the Psychomachia, an allegorical description of the struggle between (Christian) virtues and (pagan) vices; lyric poetry; and--a valuable source on Christian iconography--poetic inscriptions for biblical scenes on the walls of a church."@en
"Prudentius (born 348 CE) used allegory and classical Latin verse forms in the service of Christianity. His works include the Psychomachia, an allegorical description of the struggle between (Christian) virtues and (pagan) vices; lyric poetry; and--a valuable source on Christian iconography--poetic inscriptions for biblical scenes on the walls of a church."
"Prudentius (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) was born in AD 348 probably at Casaraugusta (Saragossa) and lived mostly in northeastern Spain, but visited Rome between 400 and 405. His parents, presumably Christian, had him educated in literature and rhetoric. He became a barrister and at least once later on an administrator; he afterwards received some high honour from Emperor Theodosius. Prudentius was a strong Christian who admired the old pagan literature and art, especially the great Latin poets whose forms he used. He looked on the Roman achievement in history as a preparation for the coming of Christ and the triumph of a spiritual empire. -- jacket."@en
"In volume I the LCL presents: 'Preface' (Prefatio); 'The Daily Round' (Liber Catherminon) - 12 long literary and attractive 'hymns', parts of which have been included in the Breviary and in modern hymnals; 'The Divinity of Christ' (Apotheosis) which maintains the trinity and attacks those who denied the distinct personal being of Christ, and those who do not accept him; 'The Origin of Sin' (Hamartigenia) attacking the agnostic separation of the 'strict' God of the Old Testament from the 'good' God revealed by Christ; the famous 'Fight for Mansoul' (Psychomachia) which describes the struggle between (Christian) Virtues and(Pagan) Vices; and the first book of 'Against the Address of Symmachus' (Contra Orationem Symmachi) in which pagan gods are assailed."

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"Gedichten (teksten)"
"Vertalingen (vorm)"
"Didactisch proza (teksten)"
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"Prudentius. v. 1"
"Preudentius"
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"Prudentius"
"Prudentius in two volumes"
"Prudentius, With an English Translation by H.J. Thomson"
"[Opera] Prudentius"
"Prudentius, with an English translation"
"Prudentius : in two volumes"
"Prudentius. With an English translation by H. J. Thomson. Lat. & Eng"
"Prudentius : In two volumes"

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