Days Linked by Song

Prudentius is often considered the greatest Latin poet of late antiquity. In this volume, O''Daly looks at Prudentius'' lyric poems, the Cathemerinon, Poems for the Day, which were published early in the fifth century AD. Reflecting the religious concerns of the increasingly Christianized western Roman Empire in the age of the emperor Theodosius and Ambrose of Milan, the Cathemerinon are above all...