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The Psychomachia By Marcus Aurelius Prudentius, Translated From Latin With An Introduction, Peter Johnson Jan 1978

The Psychomachia By Marcus Aurelius Prudentius, Translated From Latin With An Introduction, Peter Johnson

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This Masters thesis is an introduction to and prose translation of Prudentius’s Psychomachia. In the introduction, besides discussing personification allegory, I suggest that the synthesis of classical and Christian elements in the Psychomachia is a response to the historical phenomena of the times. The conflict between the Christian and pagan elements is important because it mirrors the action of the poem itself, in which the soul tries to cope with the presence of two battling opposite forces: the Virtues and the Vices. This internalized soul conflict is a personalized representation of 4th Century Church history, during which intellectuals …