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The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature,
Rutilius Namatianus' De reditu suo is a poem written in elegiac couplets that describes, over the course of two books, its author's CE journey by sea from Rome to his family plantation somewhere in Gallia Narbonensis.
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Eduard Norden called its author "the last classical poet," which is a debatable judgment; it would be eminently reasonable, however, to think of De reditu as the last travel poem of antiquity. My aim in this chapter will be to justify both parts of this claim: first, to explain in what sense De reditu should count as an antique or Classical travel poem, and then, by setting it alongside some contemporary Christian writings with which it was in polemical engagement, to show why the tradition in which Rutilius wrote was coming to an end.
In what follows,