Prudentius' Psychomachia
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Allegory
Anthropomorphism
Aphorism
Apologetics
Apotheosis
Arian controversy
Arianism
Arnobius
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Avitus of Vienne
Basilica
Book of Wisdom
Cardinal virtues
Carmen contra paganos
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Christian apologetics
Christian eschatology
Church Fathers
Classicism
Claudian
Credo quia absurdum
Damnation
Diocletianic Persecution
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Erudition
Exegesis
Fall of man
God
Good and evil
Greco-Roman mysteries
Heresy
Idolatry
In Parenthesis
John Cassian
John of Jerusalem
Judeo-Christian
Juvenal
Lactantius
Manichaeism
Marcion of Sinope
Melchizedek
Nicene Christianity
Nominal Christian
Old Testament
Paganism
Parable of the Tares
Penitential
Poetry
Pope Anastasius II
Priscillian
Priscillianism
Prudentius
Psychomachia
Religion
Sabellianism
Sacred history
Sacred tradition
Salvation History
Satan
Second Coming
Sola fide
Spiritual autobiography
Spiritual Canticle
Spirituality
Sulpicius Severus
The City of God (book)
The Day of Doom
Theology
Total depravity
Vetus Latina
Warfare
Wickedness
William Langland
Product details
- ISBN 9780691617275
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Prudentius' Psychomachia, written about A.D. 405, has been studied by classicists, medievalists, and general literary historians. Nevertheless, scholars have barely explored the allegory's inner workings or related it to its historical context. The present study remedies this critical neglect and its attendant misreadings. The author arrives at a coherent, unified interpretation by examining the work's major features in relation to the poet's life and times. He contends that the poet balanced an affirmation of Christian allegory with an ironic negation of pagan literary tradition. For this remarkable achievement his audience was the aristocracy, still largely pagan at a time of intense antagonism between the Church and old Roman religious institutions. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
