Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity

Form, Tradition, and Context
Herausgeber: Verhelst, Berenice; Scheijnen, Tine

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Produktbeschreibung

"In the past few years, it has been possible to notice parallel developments in the study of both Latin and Greek late antique poetry, two neighbouring and growing scholarly fields. Recently published studies reveal an increased focus on the contemporary context and, in relation to that, on the 'otherness' of late antique aesthetics, when compared with the poetics of earlier periods that classically trained scholars have been taught to admire. Long considered poetry of bad taste from a period of decline, late antique poetry fascinates classicists today mainly because of its otherness, its productive reception of the classical period, its innovations in terms of literary forms, and the creativity with which it responds to the 'seismic cultural changes' of late antique society"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781009013673
• ISBN-10: 100901367X
• Artikelnr.: 69074035

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Walking the wire. Towards an inclusive approach to Latin and
Greek late antique poetry Berenice Verhelst and Tine Scheijnen; Part I: 1.
Rivaling song-contests and alternative Typhonomachies in Ovid and Nonnus:
revisiting the issue of Latin influence on Greek poetry in Late Antiquity
Katerina Carvounis and Sophia Papaioannou; 2. Greek and Roman
epigrammatists in the later imperial period: Ausonius and Palladas in
dialogue with the classical past Silvio Bär; 3. Allusion and referentiality
in late antique epic Calum Maciver; 4. Speaking from the margins: paratexts
in Greek and Latin poetry Aaron Pelttari; Part II: 5. The implosion of
poetic genre in Late Antiquity Helen Kaufmann; 6. Common texts, (un)common
aesthetics: the Greek and Latin cento in dialogue Brian Sowers; 7. A
'revival' of the 'epyllion' as a 'genre'? Genre awareness in short epic
narrative from Late Antiquity Berenice Verhelst; Part III: 8. Saying the
other. The poetics of personification in late antique epic Emma Greensmith;
9. Internal audiences in the New Testament epics of Juvencus and Nonnus
Laura Miguélez-Cavero; 10. Colluthus and Dracontius: mythical traditions
and innovations Marcelina Gilka; 11. Objects of the lusting gaze: viewing
women as works of art in late antique poetry Sophie Schoess; 12.
Metamorphosis and mutability in late antique epic Philip Hardie.