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Book: Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome

Chapter: Proba

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20040

Blurb:

(about AD 322–70)

The author of a Christian Virgilian cento of over 690 lines, Proba is a significant author from the fourth century AD. She was the first writer to compose a substantial Christian cento, one of the first to use Virgil for a Christian purpose,1 and the first Christian writer that we know for sure was a woman.

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