''Eupolemius'' ("Good War") is a

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

epic poem in two books written before the middle of the 12th century and no earlier than the 11th. It is the anonymous work of a German-speaking author and belongs to the genre of epic retellings of Biblical stories ( ''Bibelepik'' in German). It recounts how Jesus saved man through his resurrection. It was first published in 1564 at Basel in

Georg Fabricius Georg Fabricius (23 April 1516 – 17 July 1571), born Georg Goldschmidt, was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist who wrote in Latin during the German Renaissance. Life Fabricius was born in Chemnitz in Saxony and educated at ...

' ''Schola Antiquitatum christiano puerili''. The first book is 684 hexameters and the second 779. Both make extensive use of

aptronym An aptronym, aptonym, or euonym is a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner. History The ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' attributes the term to Franklin P. Adams, a writer who coined it as an anagram of ''patronym'', to emphasize "apt ...

s. The character of Agatus (from Greek ''agathos'', good) is

God the Father God the Father is a title given to God in Christianity. In mainstream trinitarian Christianity, God the Father is regarded as the first person of the Trinity, followed by the second person, God the Son Jesus Christ, and the third person, God t ...

; Cacus (from ''kakos'', bad) is

Satan Satan,, ; grc, ὁ σατανᾶς or , ; ar, شيطانالخَنَّاس , also known as Devil in Christianity, the Devil, and sometimes also called Lucifer in Christianity, is an non-physical entity, entity in the Abrahamic religions ...

; Antropus (from ''anthropos'', human) is

Adam Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as " ...

; Solima (from ''Hierosolyma'') is

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

; and Messyas is Jesus, the

Messiah In Abrahamic religions, a messiah or messias (; , ; , ; ) is a saviour or liberator of a group of people. The concepts of ''mashiach'', messianism, and of a Messianic Age originated in Judaism, and in the Hebrew Bible, in which a ''mashiach'' ...

(from Hebrew).

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