The Roman Self in Late Antiquity (English, Marc Mastrangelo)

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The Roman Self in Late Antiquity for the first time situates Prudentius within a broad intellectual, political, and literary context of fourth-century Rome. As Marc Mastrangelo convincingly demonstrates, the late-fourth-century poet drew on both pagan and Christian intellectual traditions--especially Platonism, Vergilian epic poetics, and biblical exegesis--to define a new vision of the self for the newly Christian Roman Empire. Mastrangelo propo…

ISBN: 9780801887222