Reading sin in the world : the Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the vocation of the responsible reader / Anthony Dykes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dykes, Anthony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prudentius, 348- Hamartigenia.

Prudentius.

Prudentius, 348---Criticism and interpretation.

Sin in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 273 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Prudentius is one of the major Latin poets of antiquity. A Christian living and writing in Spain in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, he was thoroughly imbued with the whole tradition of Latin poetry. The Hamartigenia is a didactic poem exploring the origins of evil and how it operates in the world. It is full of echoes and reworkings of earlier poems by Lucretius, Virgil and others, but is also a serious contribution to this important theological issue which was much discussed in Church circles of the day. This is a major new study of the Hamartigenia in the context of Prudentius' work as a whole and is striking for being as seriously interested in its theological as in its literary contribution.

Contents:

Introduction: 'Prudentius counts'

The world projects human responsibility

The vocation of a responsible reader: the Biblical strategy

The vocation of the responsible reader: the genre strategy

Conclusion

Appendix A.A note on the title of the Hamartigenia

Appendix B.A brief note on the date and circulation of the Vulgate Genesis.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22103-X

1-139-03636-X

1-283-05508-2

9786613055088

1-139-04182-7

1-139-04259-9

1-139-04523-7

1-139-03868-0

0-511-79142-9

1-139-04105-3

OCLC:

710974860