SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: Claudian

»Claudius Claudianus, known in English as Claudian (Greek: Κλαυδιανός; c. 370 – c. 404 AD), was a Latin poet associated with the court of the Roman emperor Honorius at Mediolanum (Milan), and particularly with the general Stilicho. His work, written almost entirely in hexameters or elegiac couplets, falls into three main categories: poems for Honorius, poems for Stilicho, and mythological epic.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

De Raptu Proserpinae

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»His most important non-political work is an unfinished epic, De raptu Proserpinae ("The Abduction of Proserpina"). The three extant books are believed to have been written in 395 and 397. In the 20th and early 21st centuries, Claudian has not been among the most popular Latin poets of antiquity, but the epic De raptu influenced painting and poetry for centuries.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Ancient History: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome

II. Geographical Index: European History: Greek History, Italian History

III. Topical Index: Cases: Mythological Victims: Proserpina | Types: General: Rape

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[Info] Jones, Brandon. »The Rhetoric of Rape: Claudian, Ovid and the Significance of Legalistic Discourse in Proserpine Poetics.« 110^th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Waco 2014.

In Eutropium

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»In Eutropium is a two-book long panegyric poem and an invective written by the poet Claudian. The poem criticizes Eutropius, an Eastern Roman politician and court eunuch. It attempts to portray Eutropius as a corrupt, ineffective, and effeminate leader through a fictionalized telling of his life. The poem argues that he created a division between the Western and Eastern Roman Empires, and caused numerous problems for the Eastern Empire. Claudian uses this to highlight a contrast between his view of a corrupted and weak Eastern Empire and a powerful and righteous Western Empire.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Ancient History: Etruscan History, Roman History | Modern History: 16^th Century

I. Geographical Index: European History: German History, Italian History

III. Topical Index: Cases: Mythological Victims: Lucretia | Types: General: Rape | Offenders: Social Status: Noblemen | Victims: Reactions: Suicide; Social Status: Noblewomen

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[Info] Follak, Jan. Lucretia zwischen positiver und negativer Anthropologie: Coluccio Salutatis Declamatio Lucretie und die Menschenbilder im exemplum der Lucretia von der Antike bis in die Neuzeit. Dissertation, Universität Konstanz, 2002.

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Laus Serenae

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