Panegyricus de Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augusti

The first edited text, translation, and literary commentary of the De Sexto by Claudian. The poem is both a superb example of the literature of late antiquity and a unique historical wirness to the teetering collapse of the Roman Empire. A celebration of the defeat of Alaric the Visigoth's first invasion (AD 402), Claudian's confident prediction that Rome will never be troubled again provides vivid insight into the clinging perceptions of the myth of "eternal Rome" in the ancient world.