Κλαυδιανός

Claudian, Claudianus, Klaudianos

Translated by Bret Mulligan19 Jun 2003Vetting: high6 revisions

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Of Alexandria,¹ a latter-day epic poet²; he lived during the time of the emperors Arcadius³ and Honorius.⁴

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κλαυδιανός, Ἀλεξανδρεύς, ἐποποιὸς νεώτερος· γέγονεν ἐπὶ τῶν χρόνων Ἀρκαδίου καὶ Ὁνωρίου τῶν βασιλέων.

Betacode

*klaudiano/s, *)alecandreu/s, e)popoio\s new/teros: ge/gonen e)pi\ tw=n xro/nwn *)arkadi/ou kai\ *(onwri/ou tw=n basile/wn.

c.370-404. See generally OCD(4) s.v.
1Supposition based on internal evidence in two epigrams: c.m. 19.3 and c.m. 22.56f.; Sidonius claims that Claudian was from Canopus but for Sidonius this is probably a poetic term for Egypt. John the Lydian calls him a "Paphlagonian" but perhaps in the Aristophanic sense of "blusterer"; see the parallel usage in Procopius, Secret History 16.7. ↩
2(Ms F, Adler reports, omits 'latter-day' and indeed everything after 'epic poet'.) Claudian also composed Latin invectives, panegyrics, and occasional poetry, all in either hexameters or elegiacs. A fragment of a Greek Gigantomachy also survives. See web address 1 for texts. ↩
3Flavius Arcadius, elder son of Theodosius I (theta 144); he ruled the eastern Roman Empire (383-408) -- see OCD(4) s.v. Arcadius(2). ↩
4Honorius, younger brother of Arcadius: see omicron 405. ↩

Cameron, A. Claudian: Poetry and Propaganda at the Court of Honorius. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970

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