Proba the Prophet : : the Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba / / by Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed.

In Proba the Prophet: The Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed offers an in-depth study and reappraisal of the Cento of Proba and its reception. Proba's poem belongs to the few extant Latin texts from Antiquity penned by a woman writer, and one of the o...

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Superior document:Mnemosyne Supplements, Late Antique Literature, Volume 378
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; Volume 378.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Other title:Cento.
Summary:In Proba the Prophet: The Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed offers an in-depth study and reappraisal of the Cento of Proba and its reception. Proba's poem belongs to the few extant Latin texts from Antiquity penned by a woman writer, and one of the oldest Christian Latin poems. Schottenius Cullhed surveys and challenges common preconceptions and biographical constructions of the poem's author and early readers, and examines their impact on interpretations and evaluations of the text. The author also develops and puts to use an alternative model for understanding the poem and convincingly shows how the Virgilian source texts form a complex net of internal and external biblical typologies within the Cento .
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9004289488
ISSN:2214-5621 ;
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: by Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed.