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Temporal and Timeless in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2009

C. E. Gruzelier
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Extract

All works of art reflect the time in which they are created, but the mark of a good artist is that his work will transcend the limitations of his own era and thus construct a series of bridges over the gap of centuries.

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Research Article
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Greece & Rome , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , April 1988 , pp. 56 - 72
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1988

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Notes

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6. See Crook, J., Consilium Principis (New York, 1975), p. 102Google Scholar. Also Brilliant, , op. cit., p. 163Google Scholar: ‘In the third and fourth centuries the implications of majesty became paramount for a society whose ancient traditions of social mobility were being replaced by a rigid class structure.’

7. Henig, , op. cit., pp. 235Google Scholar and 241.

8. See Crook, , op. cit., pp. 101ff.Google Scholar; Jones, A. H. M., The Later Roman Empire (Oxford, 1973), pp. 333ff.Google Scholar; and Bury, J. B., History of the Later Roman Empire Vol. 1 (London, 1923), pp. 23–24Google Scholar.

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12. Brilliant, , op. cit., p. 164Google Scholar.

13. Cameron, op. cit., notes on pr. 2 and also 1.157–8 n. on proskynesis, adoratio, and the importance of the imperial purple.

14. On this theme, see Braden, G., ‘Claudian and his Influence: the Realm of Venus’, Arethusa 12 (1979), 219ff.Google Scholar; and Newbold, R. F., ‘Bodies and Boundaries in Late Antiquity’, Arethusa 12 (1979), 93–114Google Scholar.