Resumen de Damasus of Rome, The Epigraphic Poetry: Introduction, Texts, Translations, and Commentary
Kristina. Sessa (res.)
In addition to bringing Damasus's full poetic corpus to English-speaking audiences for the first time, Trout offers readers a highly readable synthesis of recent scholarship on the bishop, his literary endeavors, and the broader ecclesiastical milieu. The lengthy introduction to the author and poems covers virtually every conceivable angle on the material with varying levels of detail. [...]in a move that will please classicists, Trout addresses many technical features of Damasus's poems, discussing at length matters such as metrical quantity (and the extent to which Damasus followed convention), Damasus's use of caesuras and diaeresis, and his deliberate alteration between verbal repetition and innovation. Following another highly technical discussion of comparative literary features, including the use of statistical data, he concludes that the evidence is too thin to attribute the poem to Damasus
