Prudentius: The Last Classical Poet
Classics
Prudentius, according to the Oxford Classical Dictionary, is the greatest of the Christian Latin poets, on the other hand Malamud in 1989 calls him the last classical poet along with his contemporary Claudian. Born around 350 and living past 405, Prudentius, in summary seeks to synthesize themes and content from both pagan and Christian literature during a time of great change and transition in an attempt to legitimize the authority of the officially Christianized government and promote Christian morality. There is a huge amount of previously unstudied Late Antique primary source material, and this combined Brown’s rediscovery of the period in the English speaker’s mind, if for no other reason than it being a useful designation, has pushed it to the front. Prudentius, in particular, has remained unseen by English speakers, leading me to the project today. I will proceed to argue that Prudentius, a poet on the end of Classical work and facing changing cultural and religious winds of Christianity, attempts to impose Christian morality onto pagan or traditional literary themes and topics.
Mark Krause
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 23, 2019
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Major: Classics (self-designed)
Minor: Religion
Self Designed Research Seminar
Small Worlds: Display of Inwardness in Pompeiian Houses during the Late Republic and the Early Roman Empire by Myat Aung
Classical Studies
Comprehension of the Roman experience is conceived through the exploration of antiquity: close examination of artifacts and ideas that the Romans encountered in their everyday lives. Myriad ways in which the city was perceived to the ancients stemmed from the ramifications in the physical fabric of the city they experienced. The interpretation of a Roman life is made up of minute incidences and events, one of them being the internal experience of a person, in relation to entering the private realms of a house. At the time of Rome’s transition from the Republic to the Empire, the articulation of an emotional experience that sprang from a spatial relationship with an interior of a house attracted writers and artists as an ideal escape from the turmoil. After Pompeii became Rome’s colony in 80 BC, stylistic changes that occurred in Rome during the transition emerged in the art and architecture Pompeii’s houses and villas, expressing the ideal of inwardness, beauty, and tranquility in an enclosed private space through elaborate construction and decoration of interior spaces.
Aung, Myat
Senior Showcase Poster presentation
Ripon College
April 19, 2016
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Majors: Art History, Classical Studies
CLA 430 - Variable Topic Seminar