Proba active 4th century
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- urn:cite:perseus:author.1696
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- LCCN n 81020207
- Name:
- Proba active 4th century
- Alt names:
- Flatonia Veccia Proba
Proba, 2
Proba
Proba, Faltonia Betitia
- Field of activity:
- Poetess
- Notes:
- Not the same as Anicia Faltonia Proba, granddaughter of Faltonia Betitia Proba or
Valeria Proba Anicia
Clark, E.A. and D.F. Hatch. The golden bough, the oaken cross ..., 1981: p. 97ff.
(Scholars since the time of Karl Schenkl [1888] ... have assigned the work [the Cento] to Faltonia Betitia Proba
(who calls herself simply "Proba" in the poem) ... Earlier commentators, writing before Schenkl's edition,
held varying opinions ... Some thought that the poet should be identified as Anicia Faltonia Proba )
Die Anicier und die römische Dichterin Proba, 1870
The Oxford classical dictionary, 2003 (Proba, Faltonia Betitia
Christian poet and
wife of Clodius Celsinus Adelphius, prefect of Rome in A.D. 351)
Green, R.P.H. Proba's Cento, its date, purpose, and reception. In Classical quarterly,
n.s., vol. 45, no. 2 (1995): p. 551 (Proba 2 in PLRE)
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology:
Brill's New Pauly: "Proba, The Christian Faltonia Betitia (contra, [1]) P. (d. before 380),
b. into Roman senator's partly pagan family, wrote a poem, since lost, on the usurpation of Magnentius (351-353).
In her Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi ('Virgilian Cento on the Benefactions of Christ'
cf. Cento ) she
presents episodes from the OT and NT (Genesis to Christ's death) in the manner of Virgil....."
Harich-Schwarzbauer, Henriette (Graz). Harich-Schwarzbauer, Henriette (Graz). "Proba." Brill’s New Pauly. Antiquity volumes edited by:
Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider. Brill Online, 2014
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