Aurelius Prudentius Clemens

Japanese: プルデンティウス - ぷるでんてぃうす（英語表記）Aurelius Prudentius Clemens

The greatest Christian Latin poet since 348-405. Born in Caesar Augusta (now Zaragoza) in Spain, he studied rhetoric and legal oratory before entering the civil service and attaining a high rank. He later retired to devote himself to poetry, publishing a collection of poems in 405. The works included are the Kathemerinon (Daily Song), a composition of 12 lyric hymns; the didactic poem Apotheosis (The Divinity of Christ), which deals with the Trinity and the nature of Christ; the didactic poem Hamartigenia (The Origin of Original Sin); the allegorical didactic poem Psychomachia (The Battle of the Soul), which depicts the struggle between vice and virtue for the human soul; two books of the Refutation of Symmachus; and the Peristephanon (Martyrdom Poem), written in lyric poetry.Finally, the Dithchaeon is a collection of 48 quatrains based on scenes from the Old and New Testaments, 24 of which are themes.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

348‐405以後
最大のキリスト教ラテン詩人。スペインのおそらくはカエサルアウグスタ(現，サラゴサ)に生まれ，修辞学と法廷弁論を修めたのち官界に入り，高位を得る。のち引退して詩作に没頭し，405年詩歌集を刊行。収録作品は，抒情詩体の12編の賛美歌から成る《カテメリノン(日々の歌)》，三位一体とキリストの本質に関する教訓詩《アポテオシス(キリストの神性)》，教訓詩《ハマルティゲニア(原罪の起源)》，人間の魂をめぐる悪徳と美徳の抗争を描く寓意教訓詩《プシュコマキア(魂の闘い)》《シンマクス駁論（ばくろん）》2巻，抒情詩体で書かれた《ペリステファノン(殉教詩)》で，最後に旧･新約聖書から24ずつとった場面を主題にした48編の四行詩から成る《ディトカエオン》が補足されている。

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