Leon Schmieder looks at selected passages from Claudian, Prudentius, and Ausonius to examine the aesthetic and poetological dimensions of the late ancient art of description. In its development of literary tradition, this art form proves to be shaped by complex textual strategies that, in their interplay between distance and proximity, touch on aspects of intertextuality and intermediality, and the creation of literary spaces.

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Leon Schmieder, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, Germany.