Description: Days Linked by Song : Prudentius' Cathemerinon, Hardcover by O'Daly, Gerard, ISBN 0199263957, ISBN-13 9780199263950, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Prudentius is often considered the greatest Latin poet of late antiquity. In this volume, ODaly looks at Prudentius lyric poems, the Cathemerinon, Poems for the Day, which were published early in the fifth century AD. Reflecting the religious concerns of the increasingly Christianized
western Roman Empire in the age of the emperor Theodosius and Ambrose of Milan, the Cathemerinon are above all the writings of a private person, and of the ways in which his religious beliefs colour his everyday life. They speak of bird-song and morning light, they are about about the taking of
food, about lighting lamps as dark sets in, and about the nights sleep. Rich in biblical themes and earratives, images and symbols (including paradise and the Fall, Exodus, Jonah, Daniel, and the Magi), they also celebrate Christs miracles and the feasts of Christmas and Epiphany.
However, while they exploit the themes of the Bible, they are also written in the classical metres of Latin poetry and make use of its vocabulary and metaphors. They achieve a remarkable creative tension between the two worlds that determined Prudentius culture: the beliefs and practices, sacred
books, and doctrines of Christianity; and the traditions, poetry, and ideas of the Greeks and Romans. A good part of the attractiveness of these poems comes from the interplay between these two worlds.
The volume includes the Latin texts, English translations, and critical essays on each of the twelve poems.
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Book Title: Days Linked by Song : Prudentius' Cathemerinon
Number of Pages: 424 Pages
Publication Name: Days Linked by Song : Prudentius' Cathemerinon
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Latin, Poetry, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Language Course
Item Weight: 24.2 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Gerard O'daly
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Collections
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Hardcover
