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Claudien. Une poétique de l'épopée. Beaux-arts Remarkable for the adequacy ofClaudian, originally from Alexandria, was official poet at the court of Milan between 395 and 404 AD. As the division of the empire between East and West deepened, and the threat of the Visigoths weighed increasingly heavily on Italy, over the years he commented on political life from a Roman perspective, in the form of panegyrics, censure, and historical epics but he was also the author of mythological epics, epithalamia, and several occasional