Proba the Prophet : the Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba / by Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cullhed, Sigrid Schottenius, author.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; Volume 378.

Mnemosyne Supplements, Late Antique Literature, 2214-5621 ; Volume 378

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Centos--History and criticism.

Centos.

Bible--In literature.

Bible.

Proba, active 4th century. Cento.

Proba.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Proba the Prophet: The Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed offers an in-depth study and reappraisal of the Cento of Proba and its reception. Proba's poem belongs to the few extant Latin texts from Antiquity penned by a woman writer, and one of the oldest Christian Latin poems. Schottenius Cullhed surveys and challenges common preconceptions and biographical constructions of the poem's author and early readers, and examines their impact on interpretations and evaluations of the text. The author also develops and puts to use an alternative model for understanding the poem and convincingly shows how the Virgilian source texts form a complex net of internal and external biblical typologies within the Cento .

Contents:

Front Matter

Introduction

Proba the Poet

Proba and Her Critics

Proba in the Republic of Women

The Confessions of Proba

Centonizing Genesis

The Gospel of Proba

The Cento of Proba

Bibliography

Indexes.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Proba, active 4th century. Cento.

ISBN:

90-04-28948-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004289482 DOI