Homeric Christianity

 We discussed in class the other day the Homeric style in which the battles of the vices and virtues takes place. It was interesting then to see the very Homeric boasting over a fallen enemy. Clearly Prudentius is trying to use Homeric styling to add a level of epic to this battle, but something that occurred to me was the civil war aspect of the combat we have read. All of the vices and virtues are present in the human body and therefore the battle is the body, or soul I guess, fighting itself. The literal narrative of the battle corresponds to the struggle between vice and virtue present in each individual. The Homeric ornamentation might then be a way to exalt in a traditional manner the power of Christ and the strength of virtue. In that case, why is Job here? Randomly Job appears in the middle of the narrative clinging to Patience and having apparently fought the evil Vices. I wonder if it means that Job as a religious figure represents something inherent in every person. Job, who was driven to question the existence of God through God's cruelty and need to one up Satan. Job also replaces that which he has lost, meaning what? Is it what he lost to God, which was replaced, or what Job lost in the battle. The description of Job also seems to show that God's solution to all of the ruin that he inflicted on Job did not satisfy Job. This makes sense as God's answers to why he did what he did in the book of Job is insanely vague and does not  sufficiently answer the questions that Job asked concerning Job's existence. Job was a confusing insertation.