Education, Religion, and Literary Culture in the 4th Century CE : A Study of the Underworld Topos in Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae

This book contextualizes Claudian's handling of the Proserpina myth and the underworld in the history of literature and religion while showing intersections with and differences between the literary and religious uses of the underworld topos. In doing so, the study provides an incentive to rethink t