De Raptu Prosperpinae

Claudian was one of the last great Latin poets of the classical tradition, writing in the fourth century AD. J. B. Hall has already produced two editions of his poem De Raptu Proserpinae which deal exhaustively with the complicated manuscript traditions of the work. This book now turns to literary questions, with a simplified text of the poem, and facing-page translation to make the poem more accessible to non-specialists. The book sets Claudian in his rightful place as a distinctive creative writer of late antiquity with the roots of the whole classical tradition before him.