Mnemosyne, Supplements, Late Antique Literature – serie
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Proba the Prophet
The Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba
Inbunden, 2015
2950 kr
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In Proba the Prophet: The Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed offers an in-depth study and reappraisal of the Cento of Proba and its reception. Proba's poem belongs to the few extant Latin texts from Antiquity penned by a woman writer, and one of the …
Studies in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen
Inbunden, 2015
3014 kr
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This first monograph in English on Colluthus situates this late antique author within his cultural context and offers a new appraisal of his hexameter poem The Abduction of Helen, the end-point of the pagan Greek epic tradition, which was composed in the Christianised Egyptian Thebaid. The book …
Direct Speech in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca
Narrative and rhetorical functions of the characters’ “varied” and “many-faceted” words
Inbunden, 2016
2558 kr
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Direct Speech in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca is the first more extensive study of the use and functions of direct speech in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca (5th century AD). Its long soliloquies and scarcity of dialogues have often been pointed out as striking characteristics of Nonnus’ epic style, but nonetheless this …
Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature
Images, Metatexts and Interpretation
Inbunden, 2017
1972 kr
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Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature: Images, Metatexts and Interpretation is a collection of essays that survey the rhetorical tropes and the metaliterary dimension of works by important authors in a period marked by intense and thriving contact between Classical paideia and Christian …
Nonnus of Panopolis in Context II: Poetry, Religion, and Society
Proceedings of the International Conference on Nonnus of Panopolis, 26th – 29th September 2013, University of Vienna, Austria
Av Herbert Bannert, Nicole Kröll
Inbunden, 2017
2429 kr
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Nonnus of Panopolis in Upper-Egypt is the author of the 48 books of the last large scale mythological epic in antiquity, the Dionysiaca. The same author also wrote an epic poem on the life and times of Jesus Christ according to St John’s Gospel. Nonnus has an outstanding position in ancient …
Nonnus’ Paraphrase between Poetry, Rhetoric and Theology
Rewriting the Fourth Gospel in the Fifth Century
Av Maria Ypsilanti, Laura Franco
Inbunden, 2020
2415 kr
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This book investigates the various paraphrastic techniques employed by Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century AD) for his poetic version of the Gospel of John. The authors look at Nonnus’ Paraphrase, the only extant poetic Greek paraphrase of the New Testament, in the light of ancient rhetorical theory …
Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
A Study of Heroic Characterization and Heroism
Inbunden, 2018
2872 kr
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Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica (3rd century C.E.) is of great literary value to the field of Greek epic. It is a stylistic imitation of Homer and recounts what Iliad and Odyssey have left untold of the Trojan War. Tine Scheijnen offers the first linear study of this still little-known poem. …
Letters of Alciphron
A Unified Literary Work?
Av Michèle Biraud, Arnaud Zucker
Inbunden, 2018
2186 kr
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In ‘The Letters of Alciphron: A Unified Literary Work?’, Michèle Biraud and Arnaud Zucker have gathered a dozen international contributions about the collection of letters of Alciphron, hitherto mainly studied as part of the epistolary genre at the time of the Second Sophistic or as testimony of a …
Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III
Old Questions and New Perspectives
Inbunden, 2020
2743 kr
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Nonnus of Panopolis (5th c. AD), the most important Greek poet of Late Antiquity, is best known for his Dionysiaca, a grand epic that gathers together all myths associated with Dionysus, god of wine and mysteries. The poet also authored the Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel which renders the Fourth …
Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition
Inbunden, 2022
2101 kr
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Before serving as Bishop of Constantinople and becoming known to posterity as "the Theologian", Gregory of Nazianzus was an Athens-trained professional teacher of Greek literature. Steeped in the rhetorical culture of the Second Sophistic, his orations for Christian feasts such as Christmas and …
Αugustine and Rhetoric
Argumentative Strategies in Early Christianity
Av Adam Ployd
Inbunden, 2023
1986 kr
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This volumes examines the place of classical rhetoric in Augustine's theology. Rather than seeing rhetoric as a matter only of style, the authors examine the argumentative techniques that Augustine would have learned and taught as a professional rhetorician. Essays pay particular attention to the …
Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography
Inbunden, 2023
2001 kr
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This volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary traditions. It includes Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Persian and Arabic material. Whereas scholarship in these texts has traditionally focussed on historical questions, this book …
Argonautika by Orpheus
Writing Pre-Homeric Poetry in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2024
1941 kr
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Is it possible to be better than Homer? For most literary critics in late antiquity, the answer was an unequivocal no, but the anonymous author of the Argonautika by Orpheus disagreed. This book, the first English monograph on this late antique epic poem, demonstrates that the idea of competing …
Studies in Byzantine Epitomes and the Greek Epitomizing Tradition
Inbunden, 2025
1956 kr
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Epitomes, or abridged books, were a constant feature of Byzantine intellectual life and book culture. From epitomes of Greek and Roman historians to medical texts to condensed works of law, epitomes provided professionals and intellectuals with convenient sources of information – or erudition – …
Dynamic Quality of Late Greek Non-Christian Poetry
Studies in Minor Genres
Inbunden, 2025
1795 kr
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The book highlights the dynamics of changing the concept of small-scale poetic genres represented by texts in Greek from the time of the Antonines to the end of the sixth century. The introduction situates the adopted research profile against current theories and interpretative trends. Individual …
