The Genres of Late Antique Christian Poetry: Between Modulations and Transpositions

Published by De Gruyter 2020

The Genres of Late Antique Christian Poetry

Between Modulations and Transpositions

Edited by: Fotini Hadjittofi and Anna Lefteratou

Volume 86 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110696219

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

F. Hadjittofi, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, A. Lefteratou, Universität Heidelberg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Prelude
Generic Debates and Late Antique Christian Poetry Anna Lefteratou and Fotini Hadjittofi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Fugue in Minor: Epigram, Elegy, Epyllion
Metrical Inscriptions in Late Antiquity: What Difference Did Christianity Make? Gianfranco Agosti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Writing Classicizing Epigrams in Sixth-Century Constantinople: The Funerary Poems of Julian the Egyptian Arianna Gullo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
The Poet and the Light: Modulation and Transposition of a Prudentian Ekphrasis in Two Poems by Sidonius Apollinaris Marco Onorato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Poetological Name-Dropping: Explicit References to Poets and Genres in Gregory Nazianzen’s Poems Thomas Kuhn-Treichel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
The Significance of Meter in the Biblical Poems of Gregory Nazianzen (carmina I.1.12–27) James McDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Some Οbservations on the Genre of Dracontius’ Satisfactio Maria Jennifer Falcone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Do Dracontius’ Epyllia Have a Christian Apologetic Agenda? Étienne Wolff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Dracontius’ Medea and the Classical Tradition: Divine Influence and Human Action Susanna Fischer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
The Late Roman Alcestis and the Applicability of Generic Labels to Two Short Narrative Poems Anna Maria Wasyl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Part II: Fugue in Major: Epic
The ‘Profanity’ of Jesus’ Storm-calming Miracle (Juvencus 2.25–42) and the Flaws of Kontrastimitation Michael Paschalis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Writing a Homeric-Christian Poem: The Case of Eudocia Augusta’s Saint Cyprian Maria Sole Rigo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Did Nonnus Really Want to Write a ‘Gospel Epic’? The Ambiguous Genre of the Paraphrase of the Gospel According to John Domenico Accorinti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Nonnus’ Paraphrase of the Gospel According to John as Didactic Epic Fotini Hadjittofi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Davidic Didactic Hexameters: The Generic Stance of the Metaphrasis Psalmorum Andrew Faulkner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
The Lament of the Virgin in the I Homeric Centos: An Early Threnos Anna Lefteratou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
George Pisides’ Expeditio Persica and Discourses on Warfare in Late Antiquity Hartmut Leppin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Index Auctorum Locorumque Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Thematic Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Classical, Medieval, and Byzantine Studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 335
Illustrations
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Late Antiquity; Christian poetry; Literary genres; Reception

eBook

Published: October 12, 2020
ISBN: 9783110696219

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Published: October 12, 2020
ISBN: 9783110689976

Paperback

Published: July 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110995831