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‘PROUD OCEAN HAS BECOME A SERVANT’ (Diarmuid Scully) 1 Moralia in Iob 27:11, 21, ed. M. Adriaen, CCSL 143B (Turnhout, 1985), p. 1346, ll. 64– 80; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum 2.1, ed. and trans. B. Colgrave and R.A.B. Mynors (Oxford, repr. with corrections, 1991), hereafter HE; Bede omits Gregory’s lines on the East–West spread of Christianity. 2 Suetonius, Claudius 17.3 and 21.6. 3 On these and other celebrations of Claudius’ conquest of Britain, see D.R. Dudley, ‘The Celebration of Claudius’ British Victories’, University of Birmingham Historical Journal, vol. 11, 1959, pp. 6–17; K.T. Erim, ‘A New Relief Showing Claudius and Britannia from Aphrodisias’, Britannia, vol. 13, 1982, pp. 277–81; A.A. Barrett, ‘Claudius’ British Victory Arch in Rome’, Britannia, vol. 22, 1991, pp. 1–19; P.C.N. Stewart, ‘Inventing Britain: The Roman Creation and Adaptation of an Image’, Britannia, vol. 26, 1995, pp. 1–10 at pp. 7– 9; D. Braund, Ruling Roman Britain: Kings, Queens, Governors and Emperors from Julius Caesar to Agricola (London and New York, 1996), pp. 102–8. 4 Pan. Lat. 8 (5).11, 1–2 in Panegyrici Latini, ed. R.A.B. Mynors (Oxford, 1964), repr. in C.E.V. Nixon and B.S. Rodgers (ed. and trans.), In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini. Introduction, Translation, and Historical Commentary with the Latin Text of R.A.B. Mynors (Berkeley, CA, 1994), hereafter Pan. Lat. 5 Jeremiah (Diarmuid) A. Scully, ‘The Atlantic Archipelago from Antiquity to Bede: The Transformation of an Image’, unpublished doctoral thesis, University College Cork, National University of Ireland, 2000, pp. 36–8. 6 Epitome 1:47, ed. and trans. E.S. Forster, Epitome of Roman History (Cambridge, MA, 1984). 7 Vita Columbae 3.23, ed. and trans. A.O. Anderson and M.O. Anderson (London and Edinburgh, 1961; 2nd edn., Oxford, 1991). 8 Pan. Lat. 8 (5).20, 3. On the topos of Britain’s remoteness in the ancient sources, see V. Santoro, ‘Sul concetto di Britannia tra Antichitá e Medieovo’, Romanobarbarica, vol. 11, 1992, pp. 321–34 at pp. 324–5; James S. Romm, The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought (Princeton, NJ, 1992), pp. 140–1; Stewart, ‘Inventing Britain’, pp. 4–5; Braund, Ruling Roman Britain. 9 Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII 1.2, 75–76 (hereafter Hist.); Isidore, Etymologiae 14.6, 2; cf. Bede, HE 1.1; R. Baumgarten, ‘The Geographical Location of Ireland in Isidore and Orosius’, Peritia, vol. 3, 1984, pp. 189–203. 10 Liber Memorialis 6.12, ed. and trans. M.P. Arnoud-Lindet (Paris, 1993). 313 Notes and References 314 Notes to pages 5–7 11 See, for example, Pomponius Mela, De Chorographia 3.70. 12 On Thule, see L.G. De Anna, Thule: Le Fonte et le Tradizione (Rimini, 1998); on the Elysian Fields, Fortunate Islands and other oceanic paradises, A.O. Lovejoy and George Boas, Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity (Baltimore, MD, 1935), pp. 290–303; G.L. Campbell, Strange Creatures: Anthropology in Antiquity (London, 2006) pp. 61–91. On Britain’s poetic association with the Fortunate Islands, Josephine Waters Bennett, ‘Britain among the Fortunate Islands’, Studies in Philology, vol. 53, 1956, pp. 114–40; and on its association with Thule, Scully, ‘The Atlantic Archipelago’, pp. 26–29. 13 Catullus, 29.4; 29.13. 14 Horace, Carmina 1.25, 29–30. 15 Registrum Epistularum 8.29, ed. D. Norberg, CCSL 140, 140A (Turnhout, 1982). J. O’Reilly, ‘Islands and Idols at the Ends of the Earth: Exegesis and Conversion in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica’, S. Lebecq, M. Perrin and O. Szerwiniack (eds.), Bède le Vénérable: Entre Tradition et Posterité (Lille, 2005), pp. 119–45; N. Howe, ‘An Angle on this Earth: Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library of Manchester, vol. 82, 2000, pp. 1–25. 16 Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 1. Romm, The Edges of the Earth, p. 140, notes the related status of Britain and Taprobane as other worlds. 17 Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.752. 18 Claudian, De Consulatu Stilichonis 2.247–49; Eumenius, Pan. Lat. 9 (4).21, 2. 19 Pliny, Naturalis Historia 4.109 and 34.156; Pomponius Mela, De Chorographia 1.3 (among the Insular sources, Adomnán, Vita Columbae 3.23 also refers to Oceanus Britannicus); Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6, 88. 20 Jordanes, Getica 1.4 (quoting Orosius, Hist. 1.2, 1), ed. T. Mommsen, MGH...

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