by wren | May 6, 2020 | Art, Prudentius, Readings
Group: Julia Liu, Ann Rayburn, Wren McMillan Painting by Wren This untitled painting strives to visually represent a gruesome battle between the Virtues and the Vices in Prudentius’s Psychomachia. This battle, fought for the control of the human soul, is fraught with...
by leonard2 | May 3, 2020 | Prudentius, Readings
Continuing on the thread of agency over one’s faculties of reason from the Boethius blog post, we will now apply this question to Prudentius’ Psychomachia to see if we can’t complicate the matter further. Sight and recognition is a major issue in the Psychomachia with...
by clareb | Apr 28, 2020 | Genesis, Prudentius, Readings
Drenched in blood and covered in gore, there is no shortage of violence in Prudentius’ Psychomachia — a gruesome battle between Vices and Virtues for control of the human soul. However, despite all the blood in the poem, and the fact that the Virtues do not always...
by dante's #1 fan | Apr 23, 2020 | Prudentius, Theories
By Faryn Thomas, Jennifer Morse, Joseph Marques, and Robert Carhuayo One of the aspects of the Psychomachia that our group found particularly interesting was the fact that the virtues and vices are all presented as women. This is an initially surprising choice, as the...
by llyngklip | Apr 21, 2020 | Prudentius
Something that continues to strike me about the two texts that we’ve read thus far, is the issue that the characters have with forgetfulness liked with vision. In the Psychomachia, Sobriety is regathering the troops when she says “Have you forgotten, then, the thirst...
by ktreskow | Apr 19, 2020 | Prudentius, Readings
The extreme violence and war-like imagery of Prudentius’ Psychomachia can be quite startling—and even shocking—for many, especially for those who associate the Christian scripture on which this text is based with the loving and peaceful preaching of Jesus. However,...
