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

• Superior document: Mnemosyne Supplements, Late Antique Literature, Volume 378
• VerfasserIn: Cullhed, Sigrid Schottenius,
• 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.

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 .

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Proba the Poet -- Proba and Her Critics -- Proba in the Republic of Women -- The Confessions of Proba -- Centonizing Genesis -- The Gospel of Proba -- The Cento of Proba -- Bibliography -- Indexes.