Open AccessO Carmen Sacrum de Proba
Author(s) -
Márcio Meirelles Gouvêa Júnior
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nuntius antiquus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2179-7064
pISSN - 1983-3636
DOI - 10.17851/1983-3636.5.0.57-68
Subject(s) - font , style (visual arts) , span (engineering) , mathematics , art , combinatorics , humanities , literature , engineering , visual arts , civil engineering
The Carmen Sacrum of Proba, a Roman aristocrat christianized in the fourth century, intends to evangelize, according to the concepts of orthodox soteriology, and is also based on metric juxtapositions of fragments from the works of Virgil. Here, we describe both aspects of this curious work.