** De Raptu Proserpinae by Claudian

According to " De Consulatu Stilichonis " by Claudian, Placidia was betrothed to Eucherius, only known son of Stilicho and Serena.

In the 20th and early 21st centuries, Claudian has not been among the most popular Latin poets of antiquity, but the epic De raptu influenced painting and poetry for centuries before.

Formerly the only piece known under the name of Merobaudes was a short poem ( 30 hexameters ) De Christo, attributed to him by one manuscript, to Claudian by another ; but Ebert is inclined to dispute the claim of Merobaudes to be considered either the author of the De Christo or a Christian.

( 1836 ); the De Christo in T. Birt's Claudian ( 1892 ), where the authorship of Merobaudes is upheld ; most recently F. Biicheler and A.

* Die Lobgesänge des Claudian (" Hymns to Claudian ", 1914 )

According to Laus Serenae (" In Praise of Serena "), a poem by Claudian, both Serena and Flaccilla were from Hispania.

He expanded the Claudian tunnel to three times its original size.

He played this part for three hundred nights without a break, and repeated its success in W. G. Wills's Claudian.

The main invasion force under Aulus Plautius sailed in three divisions, and is generally believed to have landed at Richborough in Kent, although parts may have landed elsewhere ( see Site of the Claudian invasion of Britain ).

The invasion force sailed in three divisions, and is generally believed to have landed at Richborough in Kent, although parts may have landed elsewhere ( see Site of the Claudian invasion of Britain ).

Production is thought to have come to a peak in the Claudian period and persisted for some three hundred years, though archaeological evidence for this technique is limited to some forty vessels or vessel fragments.

In this same period of the early 5th century three other authors of importance to the history of allegory emerged: Claudian, Macrobius and Martianus Capella.

The myth of Proserpina, the most extensive Latin version of which is by Claudian ( 4th century AD ), is closely connected with that of Orpheus and Eurydice.

* Claudian at LacusCurtius ( A collection of Claudian's works in both Latin and English, including his panegyrics for Stilicho.

Although a native speaker of Greek, Claudian is one of the best Latin poetry stylists of late antiquity.

In later times Statius, Ausonius, Sidonius Apollinaris and Claudian are the authors of the best-known epithalamia in classical Latin ; and they have been imitated by Julius Caesar Scaliger, Jacopo Sannazaro, and a whole host of modern Latin poets, with whom, indeed, the form was at one time in great favor.

Latin poets included Paulinus of Nola, Claudian, Rutilius Namatianus, Sidonius Apollinaris, Corippus and Arator.

Unlike the instrument of the Renaissance period, which is the main subject of the article on the pipe organ, the ancient hydraulis was played by hand, not automatically by the water-flow ; the keys were balanced and could be played with a light touch, as is clear from the reference in a Latin poem by Claudian ( late 4th century ), who uses this very phrase ( magna levi detrudens murmura tactu.

Claudius Claudianus, usually known in English as Claudian ( ca.

Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell ( 19 August 1910 in London – 16 December 1996 in Sussex ) was an English art historian and author.

He completed the editions of Virgil ( 1767 ) and Claudian ( 1760 ), which had been left unfinished by his uncle, and commenced an edition of Propertius, one of his best works, which was only half printed at the time of his death.

Usually some middle-ranking literary man was appointed as general editor ; occasionally, however, a first-rate scholar would preside over the edition and include original work of his own within it, Nicolas Heinsius's edition of Claudian ( Elsevier, 1661 ) being a good example.

* Claudian, Loeb Classical Library, On Stilicho's Consulship ( translation Platnauer )

" So Midas, king of Lydia, swelled at first with pride when he found he could transform everything he touched to gold ; but when he beheld his food grow rigid and his drink harden into golden ice then he understood that this gift was a bane and in his loathing for gold, cursed his prayer " ( Claudian, In Rufinem ).

The large palace was built in the 1st century AD, around thirty years after the Roman conquest of Britain on the site of a Roman army supply base established at the Claudian invasion in 43 AD.

Besides the relevant legal records in the Codex Theodosianus, the major primary source for the events of Stilicho's reign, or at least events prior to 404, are the panegyrics addressed to him by the poet Claudian.

The Julian and Claudian emperors frequently visited it: Gaius Maecenas had a villa at Antium ; both Emperor Caligula and Nero were born in Antium ; the latter founded a colony of veterans and built a new harbour, the projecting moles of which still exist.

However in his absence his authority over his army at Nisibis was seriously undermined by the youngest and wildest of the Claudian brothers, Publius Clodius Pulcher, apparently acting in the interests of Pompey, who was eager to succeed Lucullus in the Mithridatic War command.

He scorns invective and apology, and does not hesitate to reveal, with Claudian, a suppressed grief at the indignities put upon the old religion by the new.

From thence, instead of proceeding on the Claudian Way, as the pagans had done, it turned to the left towards the Vatican Hill, stopped at a cross, of which the site is not given, and again in the atrium of St. Peter's, and finally in the basilica itself, where the station was held.

A number of first-century pottery fragments and coins have been found along the road, including Samian ware of Claudian date at Pulborough.

A resident at the court of her cousin, Honorius, she selected a bride for the court poet, Claudian, and took care of Honorius ' half-sister, her cousin Galla Placidia.

The antefix appears to have been created from the same mould as an example from the legionary fortress at Caerleon-where the legion is known to have been stationed from around AD75 The Legio II Augusta was part of the Claudian invasion of Britain in AD 43, and future Emperor Vespasian was commander at the time.

In 1884, he wrote Paw Claudian, a burlesque of the 1883 costume ( Byzantine ) drama ' Claudian ' by Henry Herman and W. G. Wills, starring J. L. Toole, presented at Toole's Theatre.

Until October 2008 there was uncertainty whether this was the site of the Claudian invasion of Britain ; two ditches at the site which have been dated to the Roman period were interpreted as defensive structures, however some archaeologists had favoured the theory that the landing took place in the vicinity of modern-day Chichester.

* Claudian: Poetry and Propaganda at the Court of Honorius ( 1970 )

Specimens of the Fescennines used at weddings are the Epithalamium of Manlius ( Catullus 61 ) and the four poems of Claudian in honor of the marriage of Honorius and Maria ; the first, however, is distinguished by a licentiousness which is absent in the latter.

His most important non-political work is an unfinished epic, De raptu Proserpinae (" The Abduction of Proserpina ).

1631 ) by Rembrandt was influenced by Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae

* De raptu Proserpinae ( unfinished epic, 3 books completed )