Classicism And Christianity In Late Antique Latin Poetry
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Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry
Author | : Prof. Philip Hardie |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-08-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520968424 |
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After centuries of near silence, Latin poetry underwent a renaissance in the late fourth and fifth centuries CE evidenced in the works of key figures such as Ausonius, Claudian, Prudentius, and Paulinus of Nola. This period of resurgence marked a milestone in the reception of the classics of late Republican and early imperial poetry. In Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry, Philip Hardie explores the ways in which poets writing on non-Christian and Christian subjects used the classical traditions of Latin poetry to construct their relationship with Rome’s imperial past and present, and with the by now not-so-new belief system of the state religion, Christianity. The book pays particular attention to the themes of concord and discord, the "cosmic sense" of late antiquity, novelty and renouatio, paradox and miracle, and allegory. It is also a contribution to the ongoing discussion of whether there is an identifiably late antique poetics and a late antique practice of intertextuality. Not since Michael Robert's classic The Jeweled Style has a single book had so much to teach about the enduring power of Latin poetry in late antiquity.
Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity
Author | : Willemien Otten,Karla Pollmann |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2007-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789047421320 |
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This volume presents a broad variety of specifically Christian approaches to poetry and analyses modes of interpreting the Bible that are new in poetry compared with prose exegesis. Both theoretical statements on poetry by Christians and concrete poetic works from roughly 300 to 1250 AD are taken into account.
The Genres of Late Antique Christian Poetry
Author | : Fotini Hadjittofi,Anna Lefteratou |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110696219 |
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Classicizing Christian poetry has largely been neglected by literary scholars, but has recently been receiving growing attention, especially the poetry written in Latin. One of the objectives of this volume is to redress the balance by allowing more space to discussions of Greek Christian poetry. The contributions collected here ask how Christian poets engage with (and are conscious of) the double reliance of their poetry on two separate systems: on the one hand, the classical poetic models and, on the other, the various genres and sub-genres of Christian prose. Keeping in mind the different settings of the Greek-speaking East and the Latin-speaking West, the contributions seek to understand the impact of historical setting on genre, the influence of the paideia shared by authors and audiences, and the continued relevance of traditional categories of literary genre. While our immediate focus is genre, most of the contributions also engage with the ideological ramifications of the transposition of Christian themes into classicizing literature. This volume offers important and original case studies on the reception and appropriation of the classical past and its literary forms by Christian poetry.
The Jeweled Style
Author | : Michael Roberts |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-09-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501729713 |
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In The Jeweled Style, Michael Roberts offers a new approach to the Latin poetry of late antiquity, one centering on an aesthetic quality common to both the literature and the art of the period—the polychrome patterning of words and phrases or of colors and shapes. In Roberts's view, the writer or artist of this period works as a jeweler, carefully setting compositional units in a geometric framework, consistently demonstrating a preference for effects of patterning over realistic representation, and for a unity situated at a higher level than the literal, historical sequence of the narrative. Roberts's introductory chapter is followed by an anthology of representative narrative and descriptive poetry from the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. Next, Roberts traces the use of "jewels" as a literary metaphor from the first century A.D. to late antiquity. He then compares the works of late antique literature to wall and floor mosaics, ivory diptychs, Christian sarcophagi, and contemporary styles of dress. Emphasizing that the poetry of this period is not uniform, he differentiates the main genres of Christian narrative poetry—biblical and hagiographical epic—from secular examples of the jeweled style, such as the poetry of Ausonius and Sidonius. Roberts concludes by examining the influence of late antique aesthetics on the medieval poetics of Matthew of Vendôme and Geoffrey of Vinsauf. Elegantly written and augmented by twenty-three illustration, The Jeweled Style will be welcomed by many readers, including Latinists and other classicists, medievalists and Renaissance scholars specializing in literature, Byzantinists, and art historians.
Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity
Author | : Berenice Verhelst,Tine Scheijnen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2022-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781009033077 |
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Although Greek and Latin poetry from late antiquity each poses similar questions and problems, a real dialogue between scholars on both sides is even now conspicuously absent. A lack of evidence impedes discussion of whether there was direct interaction between the two language traditions. This volume, however, starts from the premise that direct interaction should never be a prerequisite for a meaningful comparative and contextualising analysis of both late antique poetic traditions. A team of leading and emerging scholars sheds new light on literary developments that can be or have been regarded as typical of the period and on the poetic and aesthetic ideals that affected individual works, which are both classicizing and 'un-classical' in similar and diverging ways. This innovative exploration of the possibilities created by a bilingual focus should stimulate further explorations in future research.
Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity
Author | : Cillian O'Hogan |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780198749226 |
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This work considers the representation of the geographical and cultural landscapes of late antiquity in the work of the Latin poet Prudentius. It argues that his use of allusion to Augustan and early imperial Latin authors presents these landscapes as being marked by the arrival of Christianity, though retaining the grandeur of the pagan past.
Poetry Bible and Theology from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Author | : Michele Cutino |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 769 |
Release | : 2020-07-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783110687330 |
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This volume examines for the first time the most important methodological issues concerning Christian poetry – i.e. biblical and theological poetry in classical meters – from a diachronic perspective. Thus, it is possible to evaluate the doctrinal significance of these compositions and the role that they play in the development of Christian theological ideas and biblical exegesis.
Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity
Author | : Berenice Verhelst,Tine Scheijnen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2022-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781316516058 |
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Promotes a bilingual (Latin/Greek) focus to shed new light on the poetics and aesthetics of late antique poetry.