The challenge of dating an anonymous or spurious work is often addressed through intertextual comparison with texts of established chronology. This is the case of the Laus Herculis (Anth. 494b), an unfinished Latin hexameter encomium of the Greek hero and three of his nine labors. The attribution to the poet Claudian has been largely rejected by modern scholarship. This study offers a comparison between the episode of the slaying of the Nemean lion and two passages from Prudentius: the parable of the Good Shepherd (Cath. 8.33-37) and the duel between Virtus and Avaritia (Psych. 589-591). The analysis suggests that the author may have been a Christian writing in the late fifth century.
Pagan and Christian guttura: an intertextual study between Prudentius and the Laus Herculis
Alessia Prontera
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Abstract
The challenge of dating an anonymous or spurious work is often addressed through intertextual comparison with texts of established chronology. This is the case of the Laus Herculis (Anth. 494b), an unfinished Latin hexameter encomium of the Greek hero and three of his nine labors. The attribution to the poet Claudian has been largely rejected by modern scholarship. This study offers a comparison between the episode of the slaying of the Nemean lion and two passages from Prudentius: the parable of the Good Shepherd (Cath. 8.33-37) and the duel between Virtus and Avaritia (Psych. 589-591). The analysis suggests that the author may have been a Christian writing in the late fifth century.
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