selections from the poems of paulinus of nola, including the correspondence with ausonius: introduction, translation, and commentary

This volume offers a broad introduction to the correspondence of Ausonius of Bordeaux and his protégé Paulinus of Nola, as well as selections from Paulinus’ poetic output. Suitable for students and scholars of Classics, Late Antiquity, and Religious Studies.

Alex Dressler is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His published works include Personification and the Feminine in Roman Philosophy and articles on Latin literature of all genres and periods, including Roman drama, the ancient novel, epic, epistolography, and lyric poetry, on a wide range of topics, ranging from gender and class to aesthetics and phenomenology.