Cento Probae

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The Cento Probae is a Latin Cento from the 2nd half of the 4th century . The poem that Virgil uses verse is assigned to either the Faltonia Betitia Proba (around 360 ) or the Anicia Faltonia Proba (after 384 ), two distinguished Christian Roman women of late antiquity .

The "Christian patchwork poem" consists of 700 verses and uses the Aeneid , Georgica and the Eclogues of Virgil (70 BC to 19 BC) to convey the Christian message of salvation in bucolic garb. The paradise described in Cento is particularly reminiscent of Virgil's Arcadia .

Text output

  • Alessia Fassina, Carlo M. Lucarini (eds.): Faltonia Betitia Proba: Cento Vergilianus. De Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-042652-6 (critical edition)

translation

  • Faltonia Betitia Proba: The Holy Scriptures briefly told in the words of Virgil - Cento Vergilianus . Translated and commented by Wolfgang Fels. With an introductory essay by Katharina Greschat (= Library of Middle Latin Literature , Volume 13). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-7772-1701-7

literature

  • Michael von Albrecht : History of Roman Literature . Vol. 2, 3rd paperback edition, Munich 2003, p. 1046.
  • Bernd Effe , Gerhard Binder: Antique shepherd poetry. An introduction . 2nd edition, Düsseldorf / Zurich 2001, p. 148 ff.
  • Reinhart Herzog : Faltonia Betitita Proba. In: Reinhart Herzog (ed.): Restoration and renewal. The Latin literature from 284 to 374 AD (= Handbook of the Latin Literature of Antiquity , Volume 5). CH Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-31863-0 , pp. 337-340
  • Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed: Proba the Prophet. The Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba (= Mnemosyne Supplements , Volume 378). Brill, Leiden 2015, ISBN 978-90-04-26472-4