Antiquity Studies

Series | Antiquity Studies
Edited book | Paulo maiora canamus
Chapter | I consoli di dio: un topos poetico cristiano

I consoli di dio: un topos poetico cristiano

Abstract

With the conversion to Christianity in the Theodosian age, the Roman aristocracy projected their class ideology and self-representation into the conception of religious sanctity and the vision of the Afterlife. On a literary level, this gives rise to an eschatological imagery in which the holy souls are the nobility and the ‘notables’ (proceres) of the eternal res publica, they constitute the ‘heavenly senate’ (caelestis curia) seated around the throne of God, and the martyrs of Christ are given the title of ‘consuls’. This paper aims to describe the development of such images in the Christian Latin poetry of the 4th-6th centuries AD.


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Submitted: July 27, 2021 | Accepted: Sept. 6, 2021 | Published Dec. 14, 2021 | Language: it

Keywords Christian Afterlife • Christian literature • Roman aristocracy • Late Latin poetry • Roman consulate

Copyright © 2021 Luca Mondin. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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