Journal of Early Christian Studies
Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1998
E-ISSN: 1086-3184 Print ISSN: 1067-6341
DOI: 10.1353/earl.1998.0030
E-ISSN: 1086-3184 Print ISSN: 1067-6341
DOI: 10.1353/earl.1998.0030
Smith, Thomas A., 1956-
Hymns of Prudentius. The Cathemerinon; or, the Daily Round (review)
Journal of Early Christian Studies - Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1998, pp. 334-335
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Prudentius and David R. Slavitt - Book Review: Hymns of Prudentius. The
Cathemerinon; or, the Daily Round - Journal of Early Christian Studies
6:2 Journal of Early Christian Studies 6.2 (1998) 334-335 Book Review
Hymns of Prudentius. The Cathemerinon; or, the Daily Round Prudentius.
Hymns of Prudentius. The Cathemerinon; or, the Daily Round. Translated
by David R. Slavitt, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Pp. xix + 61. $19.95. Anyone who has tried to translate Latin
poetry -- or any foreign-language poetry, for that matter -- into graceful
English verse knows how fiendishly...