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Condition: used binding, crowns missing, joints split on 1 cm, solid hinges, 3 cropped corners, spine with raised bands decorated with golden fleurons and the title label (3 leather gaps on the back), fairly fresh interior. Complete.
Book illustrated with a pretty allegorical title-frontispiece.
Claudian (Claudius Claudianus) (c. 370- c. 404) was a Latin poet who wrote at the turn of the 4th and 5th centuries.
Claudian may have been born in Alexandria, Egypt. Greek speaking, he learned the Latin language by reading the texts of classical authors. Due to his Alexandrian origins, he assimilated the taste for the “baroque” of his time, represented, for example, by the Byzantine poet Nonnos of Panopolis.
A court poet and socialite, he was also a convinced pagan: Saint Augustine expressly qualifies him as an "adversary of the name of Christ" (Civitas Dei, V, 26), while Orosius speaks of him as a "very obstinate” (paganus pervicassimus) in his Adversus Paganos Historiarum (VII, 55). Few details are known about Claudian's life.
He wrote in Latin, sometimes also in Greek. His style, influenced by rhetoric, is vigorous. Along with Prudence, he is one of the last great Latin poets of the Roman Empire. 67551365
