Alan Cameron

Wandering Poets and Other Essays on Late Greek Literature and Philosophy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents radically revised and updated versions of the most important and innovative articles published by Alan Cameron in the field of late antique Greek poetry and philosophy, attempting to define pagan and Christian elements in early Byzantine literary culture.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780190268947
• ISBN-10: 0190268948
• Artikelnr.: 47868080

Autorenporträt

Alan Cameron taught classics at Columbia University for more than 30 years. Educated at Oxford University, he is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the American Philosophical Society, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His most recent book was The Last Pagans of Rome (2011). In 2013 he was awarded the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Wandering Poets: A Literary Movement in Byzantine Egypt
2. The Empress and the Poet
3. The Poet, the Bishop and the Harlot
4. Palladas: New Poems, New Date?
5. Claudian
6. Claudian Revisited
7. Poets and Pagans in Byzantine Egypt
8. Poetry and Literary Culture in Late Antiquity
9. Hypatia: Life, Death and Works
10. The Last Days of the Academy at Athens
11. Oracles and Earthquakes
12. Accusations of Paganism in Sixth-Century Byzantium