This is the first comprehensive English language translation of and commentary on the inscribed poetry of Pope Damasus (c.366-384).

Dennis Trout is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri. He is the author of Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems (University of California Press, 1999), which won the Outstanding Publication Award of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. He has published widely on late antique life and literature.

• Preface


• Damasus And The Martyrs


• A Readers Guide


• Texts, Translations, and Commentary