Reading Sin in the World

The Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the Vocation of the Responsible Reader

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ID19916754
AuthorsAnthony Dykes (University of Manchester, corresponding author)
Year2011
Publication date2011-02-24
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueReading Sin in the World (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511791420
OpenAlexW4251793225
ISBN9780511791420
Open LibraryOL26157104M
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Prudentius is one of the major Latin poets of antiquity. A Christian living and writing in Spain in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, he was thoroughly imbued with the whole tradition of Latin poetry. The Hamartigenia is a didactic poem exploring the origins of evil and how it operates in the world. It is full of echoes and reworkings of earlier poems by Lucretius, Virgil and others, but is also a serious contribution to this important theological issue which was much discussed in Church circles of the day. This is a major new study of the Hamartigenia in the context of Prudentius' work as a whole and is striking for being as seriously interested in its theological as in its literary contribution

Art · Context (archaeology) · Latin Americans · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Reading (process) · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Philosophy · 348 · Ancient, Classical & Medieval · Criticism and interpretation · Literary collections · Prudentius · Sin · Sin in literature · Sins

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