Note 16 — Chapter IV · POETIC, OLD AND NEW (FIFTH TO SEVENTH CENTURIES)
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Apotheosis, 1089 verses on the Incarnation; Hamartigenia, 974 on the origin of sin; two books Contra Symmachum, 1756 directly polemic. J. Bergman regards him as a pioneer even in these poems. After pointing out the influence of the Psychomachia on the whole middle age, he adds that Apotheosis and Hamartigenia are “kühne Versuche, die kühnsten seit Lucretius’ Tagen, Philosophie in Form einer Dichtung zu bieten.” Aulus Prudentius Clemens, der grösste christliche Dichter des Alterthums, Dorpat (Acta et Comment. Univer. II. 1), 1924.