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The Church Fathers · c. 500–510
On Spiritual History
De Spiritalis Historiae Gestis
Avitus of Vienne · c. 470–c. 519
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What it is
Five books of hexameters on creation, the fall, the sentence, the flood, and the crossing of the Red Sea, with a serpent given real rhetorical craft.
Why it lasted
The most accomplished biblical epic of late antiquity, and a poem Milton's scholars have long compared with Paradise Lost.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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