Complete Works of Claudian

<p>This volume offers a modern accurate and accessible translation of Claudian’s work published in English for the first time since 1922 and accompanied by detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary.</p><p>Claudian (active 395–404 CE) was the last of the great classical Latin poets. His best-known work <i>The Rape of Proserpina</i> continues to inspire numerous retellings and adaptations. Claudian also wrote poems in praise of rulers including the emperor Honorius and the regent Flavius Stilicho which are essential sources for reconstructing politics and society in the late Roman empire. These poems and others are translated here alongside an introduction offering an overview of Claudian’s career the wider historical and political context of the period and the poetic traditions in which Claudian wrote: mythological epic panegyric invective and epithalamium. The translations with explanatory notes include: <i>The Rape of Proserpina</i> <i>Panegyric on Olybrius and Probinus’s Consulship</i> <i>Panegyrics on Honorius’s Third</i> <i>Fourth</i> and <i>Sixth Consulships</i> <i>Invective Against Rufinus</i> <i>Fescennines </i>and <i>Epithalamium for Honorius and Maria</i> <i>The War With Gildo</i> <i>Panegyric on Manlius Theodorus’s Consulship</i> <i>Invective Against Eutropius</i> <i>Stilicho’s Consulship</i> <i>The Gothic War</i> and shorter poems.</p><p><em>The Complete Works of Claudian</em> is a vital resource for students and scholars working on late antique literature particularly Claudian’s work as well as those studying the history and culture of the western Roman Empire in this period. This accessible volume is also suitable for the general reader interested in the works of Claudian and this period more broadly.</p>