Psychomachia
Psychomachia
Staging personified virtues and vices in single combat for possession of the human soul, Prudentius's Psychomachia adapts the machinery of classical epic battle narrative into one of the earliest fully developed Christian allegories, a form that would dominate medieval literature for a thousand years.
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