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Dykes, Anthony

READING SIN IN THE WORLD The Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the Vocation of the Responsible Reader Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Year of publication
2011
ISBN
1107004535
Author
Dykes, Anthony
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Keyword
Prudentius Latin Literature Poetry & Poets
Cover description
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Binding description
Hardcover ISBN 1107004535

Description

Very light shelfwear to book and DJ else Fine. ; 294 pages; 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.