biography
| name: |
Claudianus, Claudius
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pronunciation:
[klawdius]
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| male
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| lived:
| (340–410)
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| biography:
| The last of the great Latin poets, born in Alexandria, N Egypt. He went to Rome in AD 395, and obtained patrician dignity by favour of Stilicho. He wrote first in Greek, then in Latin. Several of his works have survived, notably his epic poem De raptu Proserpinae (The Rape of Proserpine), the work for which he was famed in the Middle Ages. |
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