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Claudian’s "Gigantomachia": Coping with Reality and Dealing with Loss

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Bresson A.

Vox Patrum

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2022

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vol. 82

167-184

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The subject of Claudian’s Gigantomachia, narrating the great war between the Gods and the Giants, is vividly felt in the fourth century AD, given the historical context during which it was written. This piece, besides being mythological in a Christian world, remains unfinished, and the perspective of the incomplete end raises some questions: did Claudian do it voluntarily? Was he forced to do so? Was the end lost? And more generally, why would an official poet choose to write on a subject which does not align with the new way of thinking of a Christian Roman Empire, while rewriting a myth which tends to echo the military and the political context he was living in? In order to see through this perspective, it may be interesting to observe Claudian’s adaptations in rewriting the myth in order to grasp the different aspects of the context he was living in and that he was trying to mirror, and also to question the function of such a narration for Claudian himself, between pessimism towards loss and hope for a brighter future. This study, which focuses on the difficult adaptation of Pagans to the Christian era, allows to see, through a thorough study of Claudian’s Gigantomachia, the expression of a personal belief in an epic poem. Late Christian Antiquity poetry therefore appears both as a means to express one’s feelings and to overcome them.

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Ks. Wojciech KAMCZYK, Bogowie i demony. Augustyn z Hippony i religijność pogańska późnej starożytności, Studia Antiquitatis Christianae Series Nova 22, Katowice 2020, ss. 168.

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Ludewicz M. J.

Vox Patrum

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2020

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vol. 76

178-182

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Paweł jako ojciec i Bóg jako „Abba, Ojciec”

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Łabuda P.

Verbum Vitae

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2011

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vol. 20

171-190

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The picture of God as the Father, expressed in the thought of St. Paul, corresponds to the thought of the Old Covenant and it is also very similar to the figure of Paul, who is the father to the Christian communities. One of the fundamental features of the activity of the Apostle of Nations was opening the doors of the Christian community to the pagans without the necessity of yielding to the Law. Sending the Letter to the Galatians as well as the Letter to the Romans shows God as the tutor, him who cares and disciplines his children. Above all Paul depicts God as the Father of all believers. Everyone who believes and who has the power of the Holy Spirit can call “Abba! Father!” to him.

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Claudian’s "Gigantomachia": Coping with Reality and Dealing with Loss

Ks. Wojciech KAMCZYK, Bogowie i demony. Augustyn z Hippony i religijność pogańska późnej starożytności, Studia Antiquitatis Christianae Series Nova 22, Katowice 2020, ss. 168.

Paweł jako ojciec i Bóg jako „Abba, Ojciec”