1st Edition

Selections from the Poems of Paulinus of Nola, including the Correspondence with Ausonius Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

By Alex Dressler Copyright 2023
340 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume offers a broad introduction to one of the most exciting chapters of Late Antiquity through direct testimony from one of the last representatives of Roman Antiquity, Ausonius of Bordeaux, and his radical Christian protégé, the populist bishop and experimental poet Paulinus of Nola. The first comprehensive volume in English dedicated to these works in over a century, this book also... Read more

1. Introduction; 2. The Earlier Letters; 3. The Principal Correspondence; 4. Selections From the Poems of Paulinus; 5. Comments: The Earlier Letters; 6. Comments: The Principal Correspondence; 7. Comments: Selections From the Poems of Paulinus.

Biography

Alex Dressler is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His published works include Personification and the Feminine in Roman Philosophy and articles on Latin literature of all genres and periods, including Roman drama, the ancient novel, epic, epistolography, and lyric poetry, on a wide range of topics, ranging from gender and class to aesthetics and phenomenology.

"...This volume can be recommended as an accessible introduction to Paulinus/Ausonius for the newcomer, a useful resource for the researcher, an incisive contribution to scholarship, and a poetic translation of precision and beauty."Bryn Mawr Classical Review