Open AccessLos versos de Prudencio sobre el emperador Juliano
Author(s) -
Juan Bautista Crespo Arce
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1976.v44.i1.949
Subject(s) - paganism , prudence , emperor , philosophy , apotheosis , humanities , trustworthiness , minor (academic) , literature , order (exchange) , art , theology , history , ancient history , christianity , psychology , social psychology , finance , economics
Prud., Lib. Apotheosis, vv. 449-454 is undoubtedly the most objective and trustworthy of Christian panegyrics on the emperor Julian, and there are strong reasons to suppose that Prudence is here following pagan literary sources, perhaps Eutropius or Ammianus. In vv. 455-502 Prudence transfers a previous literary topic (cf. Lact., De mortibus, X 2,4) for his own purposes in order to illustrate Julian’s paganism. Other minor remarks on the text are done