Ferrea progenies: Old Testament History as Four Ages of Mankind in the "Cento Probae"

Abstract

Conference paper about the synthesis of two concepts of mythological history, the biblical one (Genesis) and the traditional ancient one (Hesiod, Ovid), in the first part of the Vergilian Centon of Proba.

Keywords

• cento
• Proba
• Cento Probae
• Genesis
• emplotment