Preface -- Introduction / by Michael Roberts -- Elegies: Elegy 1 -- Elegy 2 -- Elegy 3 -- Elegy 4 -- Elegy 5 -- Elegy 6 -- Appendix A. Cassiodorus, Variae 1.21 -- Appendix B. The Appendix Maximiani -- Appendix C. De Boetio Spata Cincto -- Appendix D. Imitatio Maximiani -- Append…
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Elegies -- Elegy 1 -- Elegy 2 -- Elegy 3 -- Elegy 4 -- Elegy 5 -- Elegy 6 -- Appendix A. Cassiodorus, Variae 1.21 -- Appendix B. The Appendix Maximiani -- Appendix C. Ennodius, De Boetio Spata Cincto -- Appendix D. Imitatio Maximia…
A.M. Juster presents a faithful, poetic translation of the elegies of Maximianus, ""last of the Roman poets."" This comprehensive volume includes an introduction by renowned classicist Michael Roberts, the first English translation of an additional six poems attributed to Maximi…
A.M. Juster presents a faithful, poetic translation of the elegies of Maximianus, ""last of the Roman poets."" This comprehensive volume includes an introduction by renowned classicist Michael Roberts, the first English translation of an additional six poems attributed to Maximi…
"Prudentius' Peristephanon is a collection of martyr texts from a vital period for the growth of martyr cult in the West. Building on recent work on the cult of the saints and on the sacralization of the space and time, Roberts demonstrates how the Peristephanon relates to devel…
Prudentius' Peristephanon is a collection of martyr texts from a vital period for the growth of martyr cult in the West. Building on recent work on the cult of the saints and on the sacralization of the space and time, Roberts demonstrates how the Peristephanon relates to develo…
This work offers a new approach to the Latin poetry of late antiquity, one centering on an aesthetic quality common to both the literature and the art of the period--the polychrome patterning of words and phrases or of colors and shapes. In the author's view, the writer or artis…