Summary
Marko Marulić: Davidijada / Davidias
Davidias ("Davidijada") is a religious heroic-historical epic in 14 books with 6765 hexameters. The epic was written according to Virgil's model in classical Latin, with some admixtures of biblical and medieval Latinity, and possesses considerable artistic qualities. The work combines biblical (the story of King David) and ancient motifs, but with a distinctly Christian tendency, whereby the entire work is an allegory: David is Christ, and Saul is a Jew, and at the end of the work there is a key to discover the analogy...
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