... of a trio of recent Modern English verse translations of the Old English Exodus, a Biblical epic that itself dramatizes multiple meanings of translation: Damian Love's extension of the original's imagery; R. M. Liuzza's faithful preservation of its syntactic effects and repeated diction, and David...

... women biblical epic pagan imagery biblical imagery catacomb repertoire of images ...

... by competing poetic and ascetic imperatives. In the poem for his sister, Avitus produces a “chaste” form of poetry for a Christian virgin that stylistically enacts some of the very virtues of asceticism he recommends to her. Avitus of Vienne Sidonius Apollinaris asceticism virginity nuns biblical epic...

... and Arminianism Calvinists and Calvinism predestination Trinitarians Copernicus Galileo Galilei Joshua biblical figure Luther Martin Ptolemy Ross Alexander The New Planet No Planet John Milton biblical epic Paradise Lost Protestant poetics indwelling spirit In the opening lines...

... moenia mundi 15 60–74 1 21–2 3 7–8 3 15–21 3 152–4 Golden Age Ovid cosmology mutability philosophy Pythagoras Lucan Claudian biblical epic Spenser Pope The Columbia conference succeeded admirably in showing Ovid’s deep familiarity with various schools of ancient philosophy, his ability...

...This chapter focuses on the works of Prudentius and the tradition of late classical biblical epic exemplified by the poets Juvencus, Proba, Sedulius, Arator, and Avitus, with particular reference to their place in the history of classical reception. This place is doubly important. On the one hand...