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Claudian

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Claudian (Claudius Claudianus) , c.370-c.404, last notable Latin classic poet. Probably born in Alexandria, he flourished at court under Arcadius and Honorius. Besides panegyrics, idylls, epigrams, and occasional poems, he wrote several epics, the most ambitious of which is the Rape of Proserpine, perhaps inferior to his epic attack Against Rufinus. He has been highly regarded as a vigorous, skillful, and imaginative writer.

Bibliography: See T. Hodgkin, Claudian, the Last of the Roman Poets (1875); study by A. Cameron (1970).

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Claudian ( Claudius Claudianus) (fl. c. ad 395–404), the last great Latin poet to be a pagan, was born in Alexandria and wrote in Rome. His short epic De Raptu Proserpinae (translated by Leonard Digges, 1617) influenced Spenser's account of the garden of Proserpina (Faerie Queene, ii. vii. 52).

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