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Title: BROKEN COLUMNS
TWO ROMAN EPIC FRAGMENTS: "THE ACHILLEID" OF PUBLIUS PAPINIUS STATIUS AND "THE RAPE OF PROSERPINE" OF CLAUDIUS CLAUDIANUS
By: David R. Slavitt, David Konstan
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 081221630X
ISBN 13: 9780812216301
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Pub. date: 1 January, 1997
Pages: 104
Translated from: Latin
Description: I would urge anyone who thinks that Statius only wrote gruesome epic and Claudian only dull panegyric to read this slim and sprightly volume."-Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Synopsis: There is more to classical literature than just the classics. Here David Slavitt expands the canon by presenting vivid, graceful, and amusing translations of two neglected fragmentary works of Latin literature. The first is Publius Papinius Statius's first-century epic Achilleid, an extraordinary fusion of epic and New Comedy sentiments and humor that may represent the earliest literary imagining of the charm of adolescence. It relates the story of the education of Achilles under the centaur Chiron, his adopting the disguise of a girl during his sojourn at the court of Lycomedes in Scyros, his love affair with Deidamia, his detection by Ulysses and Diomedes, and his departure for Troy. The second work is Claudius Claudianus's unfinished fourth-century epic version of the rape of Proserpine. The two works together make a delightful pair. The afterword by David Konstan explores the traditions in which-and against which-Statius and Claudian composed their versions of these well-known stories.
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Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
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