Despite a certain reluctance to highlight relevant aspects of his biographical profile, Claudian occasionally outlines traits of his artistic personality within some of his prefatory elegiac couplets preceding the hexameter poems delivered on public occasions (Ruf. 1, nupt., Stil. 3), as well as in several compositions included in the collection of the so called carmina minora (carm. min. 3, 14, 21-23, 25). This paper examines the information that the late antique Latin poet provides about himself, often associating it with literary issues, in which, proudly asserting his role as vates, he reveals that when he speaks in the first person, he almost always does so in relation to his poetic activity.
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Chapter Title
Carmina sola loquor: Claudiano e la rappresentazione di sé come poeta
Authors
Angelo Luceri
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0676-1.10
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Publication Year
2025
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Book Title
In aula ingenti memoriae meae. Forme di autobiografia nella letteratura tardolatina
Book Subtitle
Atti dell’International Workshop - Siena, 13 e 14 giugno 2024
Editors
Filomena Giannotti, Daniele Di Rienzo
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Number of Pages
240
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press, USiena Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0676-1
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979-12-215-0675-4
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979-12-215-0676-1
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979-12-215-0677-8
Series Title
Studi di Antichistica