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Obraz bogiń w wersach II 15–54 De raptu Proserpinae Klaudiana (The Portrayal of the Goddesses in Verses II 15–54 of Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae)

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Petry M.

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae

2015

vol. 25

issue 1

55-70

Claudian’s mythological poem De raptu Proserpinae is almost wholly composed of loosely linked episodes. The disputed verses from his epic, are one of the luxuriant descriptive episodes (ekphrasis) and portray four goddesses tending to the meadow of the Mount Etna. In this paper I’ll try to indicate, that their looks and the symbols depicted on their garments resemble the popular fashion of the contemporary aristocracy and remind of the works of art and motifs characteristic and prevailing in fourth century C.E. Beyond that, not to be overlooked, Claudian simultaneously emulates the divine images that mainly appear in Homer’s and Vergil’s epics as well.

Patria Ruens. Zerstörung und Überwindung des Bösen bei Claudian am Ausgewählten Beispiel

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Petry M.

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae

2023

vol. 33

issue 1

261-279

The paper focuses on longer poems by the court poet Claudian that depict a State ruined by evil forces or the state of harmony. This poet from late Antiquity uses a vocabulary related to death and destruction. Evil, above all barbarians and political opponents, is also presented appropriately by the poet. Their characters function in the poems as disaster, ruin and ignominy. To depict these evil forces, their repeatability and how they are overcome on different levels, the poet uses the motive of the upward and downward movement, describing a dead character‘s way up to heaven and down to the underworld. Destruction rises from this movement of evil to the upper world, while the movement down to the underworld carries liberation and peace. Nevertheless, the poet implies, that the state of harmony is never definitive. Destruction and ruin repeat and recur in different forms in the poems, from the mythological past up to the present. In this sense, the characters in these poems function within a time loop and the story world presents the poet’s view on history and how it works on the divine and human level.

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Obraz bogiń w wersach II 15–54 De raptu Proserpinae Klaudiana (The Portrayal of the Goddesses in Verses II 15–54 of Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae)

Patria Ruens. Zerstörung und Überwindung des Bösen bei Claudian am Ausgewählten Beispiel