Damasus of Rome : the epigraphic poetry : introduction, texts, translations, and commentary / edited by Dennis Trout.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trout, Dennis E., 1953-

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Oxford early Christian texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Damasus I, Pope, 305-384.

Damasus.

Damasus I, paus, ca305-384.

Local Subjects:

Damasus I, paus, ca305-384.

Physical Description:

xvii, 229 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Damasus of Rome makes available in English the epigraphic poetry of Damasus, bishop of Rome from 366 to 384. The translations are accompanied by the Latin text as well as by commentary on the literary, topographic, and archaeological features of Damasus' inscribed epigrams. Antonio Ferrua published the last critical edition of Damasus' poetry in 1942. Since Ferrua's ground-breaking edition, however, much has changed. Recent scholarship has challenged the Damasan authorship of several epigrams, other pieces have been reinstated as Damasan, and archaeology has added fragments that were not known in 1942. Moreover, in recent years new ways of appreciating Late Latin poetry have revolutionized thinking about many poets contemporary with Damasus. Damasus of Rome, therefore, not only offers new translations but also updates the corpus and criticism of Damasus' poetry. A full introduction situates Damasus in his times by considering his troubled election and the issues that dominated Rome and his papacy. The introduction also sets the poems within the broader sweep of the history of epigraphic poetry at Rome and relates them both to the development of the Christian catacombs and to the emergence of the cults of the Roman saints. Modern scholarship readily acknowledges that the years of Damasus' episcopacy were pivotal ones in the transformation of Rome into a late antique Christian city. His poetry, much of it inscribed at the suburban tombs of the Roman saints and martyrs, played an incalculable but significant role in the redefinition of both Roman and Christian identity in this remarkable age. Damasus of Rome now makes that poetry more readily available to scholars and students alike. Book jacket.

Contents:

Damasus and the Martyrs 1

Damasus and Rome 2

Features of Damasan Verse 16

Damasus and the Carmen contra paganos 26

Monumental Poetry and the Cult of the Saints 39

Furius Dionysius Filocalus and Philocalian Script 47

A Readers' Guide 53

A Description of the Corpus 53

Calendars, Lives, Itineraria, and Syllogae 55

Collections of Carmina Latina Epigraphica and Editions of Damasus' Carmina 65

Using This Volume 66

Texts, Translations, and Commentary 69

Detailed Table of Contents 71

Non-Epigraphic Poems (1 - [2], 60b) 75

At the Vatican (3-4) 83

On the Via Portuensis (5-6) 89

From the Via Ostiensis to the Via Ardeatina (7) 93

On the Via Ardeatina (8-14, 61*) 97

On the Via Appia (15-27, 62*) 109

On the Via Labicana (28-32) 131

On the Via Tiburtina (33-6) 139

On the Via Nomentana (37-8) 149

On the Via Salaria Nova (39-46, 63*-64*) 153

On the Via Salaria Vetus (47-8, 65*) 169

On the Via Flaminia (49) 175

Of Uncertain Location (50-6, 60a) 179

S. Lorenzo in Damaso (57-8, 66*) 187

Beyond Rome (67*, 59) 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-212) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0198735375

9780198735373

OCLC:

900242342

Publisher Number:

99964953265