Claudian's Panegyric on the Fourth Consulate of Honorius:...
Barr, William![Claudian's Panegyric on the Fourth Consulate of Honorius: Text, Translation and Commentary](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/998/9982548/CHSBZCOP039982548.jpg)
Claudius Claudianus (fl. circa 400 AD) was one of the last major poets of the Roman Empire. Highly regarded by his contemporaries, he is one of the great transmitters of Latin culture to Medieval Europe. The Panegyric on the IVth Consulate of the Emperor Honorius, written for an important state occasion, ranks among his major works. Its core is a detailed discourse on kingship, a subject of paramount interest which the Middle Ages inherited fr...