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" Claudian the poet / "
Clare Coombe.
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838918
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Coombe, Clare,1986-
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Claudian the poet /\ Clare Coombe.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ;New York, NY :: Cambridge University Press,, 2018.
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1 online resource
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1107415640
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1107058341
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9781107058347
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9781107678064
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; The Poet and his Poems; Claudian; Claudian's Audience; Stilicho; Stilicho and the Barbarians; Poet and Patron; Genre; Purpose and Method; The Mythological Focus; Levels of Reality; Levels of Reality and Political Propaganda; Propaganda and Performance; 1 In Rufinum: Heroes, Monsters, and the Universe in the Balance; Introduction; Python-Apollo: The Lens of the Preface; Rufinus the Monster: Python; Rufinus the Monster: Child of the Furies; Vice and Virtue: The Furies and Iustitia; Rufinus' Fate.
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4 The Hero Keeping the Universe Stable and Restoring the Golden Age (Stil., c.m. 27, Get.)Introduction; The Consular Trabea (Stil. 2); High Visual Aesthetic as Symbolic Signifier; Introducing the Trabea in Stil. 2 (Stil. 2); Clementia and the Peaceful Universe (Stil. 2); The Trabea and Peace (Stil. 2); The Images on the Trabea and the Golden Age (Stil. 2); The Birth of Stilicho's Grandson (Stil. 2); The Education of Stilicho's Grandson (Stil. 2); Eucherius (Stil. 2); Weaving the Trabea (Stil. 2); Stilicho as Phoenix (Stil. 2, c.m. 27); The Phoenix as Divine (Stil. 2).
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Stilicho the HeroStilicho and Mars; The Universe and its Harmonized Elements; Boundary Breakdown; Rufinus' Rule of Chaos; Boundary Restoration; Conclusion; 2 The Universe Ready to be Destabilized (IV Cons., Stil., Rapt., Epith.); Introduction; Harmony and Harmonizers: Amor (IV Cons.); Harmony and Harmonizers: Clementia (Stil. 2); Harmony and Harmonizers: Natura (Rapt.); Places of Harmony: Cave of Time (Stil. 2); Garden of Venus (Epith.); Conclusion; 3 Monsters Ready to Destabilize the Universe (c.m. 53, Gig. Gr., Rapt., Eut., VI Cons., Get.); Introduction; The Theme of Gigantomachy.
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The Background to Claudian's Giants from the GigantomachiaTerra and the Giants (c.m. 53); Boundary Breakdown (c.m. 53); Familiar and Other (c.m. 53); Parallels in Claudian's Greek Gigantomachia (Gig. Gr.); The Giant as Epitome of Recurrent Chaos (Rapt.); The Monster and Social Reality; Monster Time and Contemporizing the Gigantomachy (c.m. 53, Eut.); Claudian's Giants as Political Figures: VI Cons. and Performing a Gigantomachy (VI Cons., Rapt.); Eridanus and Alaric the Giant (VI Cons.); The Magnitude of the Threat (Get.); A Giant's Fury (Get.); Conclusion.
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The Phoenix, Paradise, and the Golden Age (Stil. 2, c.m. 27)Inverting the Gold Motif (Get.); Stilicho as Medea (Get.); Stilicho and Tiphys (Get.); Conclusion; 5 Not Quite the Hero (IV Cons., Fesc., Epith.); Introduction; Problematizing the Symbol of the Robe in the IV Cons.: Honorius and Liber (IV Cons.); Honorius in Procession (IV Cons.); Describing Honorius' Robe (IV Cons.); Honorius and Bacchus in Procession (IV Cons.); Honorius' Potential for Bacchus' Success (IV Cons.); Why Does Cupid Laugh: Gender Identity in the Epithalamium (Fesc., Epith.); Honorius as Achilles (Epith., Fesc.).
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Analyzes the poetics and story telling techniques of the fourth-century poet Claudian as tools of Late Antique political propaganda.
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Claudianus, Claudius-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Claudianus, Claudius.
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POETRY-- Ancient, Classical Medieval.
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871/.01
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PA6374.C66 2018
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