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4 unusual facts about Claudian


Amy Clarke

Clarke published a scholarly edition of a work by the Latin poet Claudian, wrote two histories of the Cheltenham Ladies' College and a history of Truro High School for Girls.

Chiavenna

It was by one or other of these passes that Stilicho crossed the Alps in midwinter, a feat celebrated by Claudian (de B. Get. 320-358).

History of Cagliari

The passage of the De Bello Gildonico of Claudian who describes it in the fourth century AD, says that Cagliari was founded by the powerful Tyre, a city of the Lebanon, which in early centuries of the first millennium BC experienced the most prosperous period as a commercial power between East and West Mediterranean, and that also founded the city of Carthage.

Prosper of Aquitaine

Though he was a poet himself, the sole secular writer Prosper mentions is Claudian.


Greensforge

This is a Claudian structure, dating from the earliest days of the Roman occupation.

Ignazio Danti

When the pontiff commissioned the architect Domenico Fontana to repair the Claudian harbour it was Danti who furnished the necessary plans.

Massagetae

At the close of the 4th century CE, Claudian (the court poet of Emperor Honorius and Stilicho) wrote of Alans and Massagetae in the same breath: "the Massagetes who cruelly wound their horses that they may drink their blood, the Alans who break the ice and drink the waters of Maeotis' lake" (In Rufinem).

Panegyric

The poet Claudian came to Rome from Alexandria before about 395 and made his first reputation with a panegyric; he became court poet to Stilicho.

Pieter Burman the Younger

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.

Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus

His two sons Probinus and Olybrius continued the tradition by being the patrons of Claudian, who paints a flattering picture of Probus in his Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus written to celebrate his sons' joint consulship in 395.

Terrace garden

At Villa of Livia, probably part of Livia Drusilla's dowry brought to the Julio-Claudian dynasty, rooms in the cryptoporticus beneath terracing were frescoed with trees in bloom and fruit.


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