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Days linked by song : Prudentius' Cathemerinon /

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Prudentius is often considered the greatest Latin poet of late antiquity. In this volume, O'Daly 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 we...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Daly, Gerard J. P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English and Latin.
Published: Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Prudentius, > 348- > Cathemerinon.
Christian poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Christian poetry, Latin > Translations into English.
Table of Contents:
  • Before dawn (Cath. 1)
  • Morning (Cath. 2)
  • Before taking food (Cath. 3)
  • Postprandial (Cath. 4)
  • The lighting of the lamps (Cath. 5)
  • Before I lay me down to sleep (Cath. 6)
  • Fasting (Cath. 7)
  • After the fast (Cath. 8 0
  • Song for all seasons (Cath. 9)
  • The burial of the dead (Cath. 10)
  • Christmas (Cath. 11)
  • Wise nen and innocents (Cath. 12)
  • Afterlife.