Claudius Claudianus (c. 370 – c. 404), known better today as Claudian, was a native Greek speaker from Alexandria who moved to Rome in 394 and made his name and fortune with panegyrics on the emperor Honorius and the influential general Stilicho. He also wrote an unfinished epic on the rape of Proserpina and a number of poems on scientific topics, demonstrating an active and inquisitive mind.