Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity

I reviewed the volume by Cillian O' Hogan about "Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity" (Oxford 2016). The volume is the revised version of doctoral thesis of the author written at the University of Toronto, and already in the Introduction (pp. 1-8) he presents his readers, first, to the deep change of views in Late Antiquity because of the rise of Christianity and the new ways in which people thought about the world as literature, and, second, to a new approach towards the poetry of Prudentius, which, according to O’Hogan, is intensely concerned not only with questions of empire, cult-spaces and identity but also with the prominence of topographical and geographical themes.