Culture and literature in Latin late antiquity : continuities and discontinuities / edited by Paola Francesca Moretti, Roberta Ricci, Chiara Torre.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Moretti, Paola Francesca, 1968- editor.

Ricci, Roberta, 1974- editor.

Torre, Chiara, editor.

Conference Name:

Trasformazione e trasmissione dei modelli culturali e letterari nella tarda antichità latina (Conference) : (2013 : Milan)

Series:

Studi e testi tardoantichi ; 1973-9982 13.

Studi e testi tardoantichi : profane and Christian culture in late antiquity ; 13

Language:

English

French

Italian

Subjects (All):

Rome--Civilization.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Civilization.

Rome--Civilization--Christian influences.

Rome--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

History.

Physical Description:

400 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2015]

Language Note:

Texts in English, Italian, and French.

Summary:

In recent decades many valuable studies have been highlighting the cultural changes that deeply affected the Roman world between the fourth and sixth centuries AD. These changes, mostly due to Christianization as well as reactions to it, occurred in literary and cultural fields. In the past they have been explained through a well-defined pattern, namely a twofold process, adapting changing contents to unchanging formal structures. However, this pattern may not be effective today, given the new framework arising from the increasing amount of data and its close examination. The papers herein collected deal with many specific texts or issues, all included in the so-called literary area of 'secularity' (according to the definition by R. A. Markus). The aim of this case-studies gallery, ranging from the fourth to seventh centuries AD, is precisely to offer a multi-layered approach to the complex, unclear-cut interweaving of continuity and discontinuity. Indeed, this is at the heart of the transformation, process of intellectual horizons in Latin Late Antiquity. This volume consists of three sections, devoted to investigating the transformation of cultural heritage in poetry and prose respectively, and the key role of school education in shaping late ancient 'secular' culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section I The Transformation of the Cultural Heritage: Poetry

Gli epigrammi di Ausonio per le fond del Danubio. Tradizione letteraria e arte figurativa / Brunella Moroni Moroni, Brunella 13

A Pagan Adventus? (Claud., Hon. VI Cons.) / Isabella Gualandri, Honorius in Rome Rome, Isabella Gualandri, Honorius in 25

Chaos e ordine net De raptu Proserpinae di Claudiano / Roberto Mandile Mandile, Roberto 41

Tituli for Illiterates? The (Sub-)Genre of Tituli Histonarum between Ekphrasis, Iconography and Catechesis / Francesco Lubian Lubian, Francesco 53

Le mot et les choses: epigramma chez Sidoine Apollinaire / Franca Ela Consolino Consolino, Franca Ela 69

Some Remarks on the Metra in Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophise. Examples of Anapestic Dimeters and Elegiac Couplets / Cecilia Floris Floris, Cecilia 99

Appunti sulla poetica ennodiana: nuove declinazioni della silva nella latinità tardoantica / Vincent Zarini Zarini, Vincent 111

Metrica vis sacris non est incognita libris. La bible et sa facies metrica à partir de la lettre d'Arator à Vigile / Roberto Mori Mori, Roberto 129

Le renouvellement formel de la poésie élégiaque dans la littérature latine chrétiennc (fin IV^e-moitié V^ec s.) / Michele Cutino Cutino, Michele 141

Letteratura e medicina: percorsi di una metafora nella tarda antichità latina (IV-VI sec. d.C.) / Cecilia Pavarani Pavarani, Cecilia 163

Section II The Transformation of the Cultural Heritage: Prose

Ambrose, Democritus and the risus of the Sapiens (lob 3. 5. 14) / Roberta Ricci Ricci, Roberta 183

The First Book of Symmachus' Correspondence as a Separate Collection / Gavin Kelly Kelly, Gavin 197

Ammianus Ciceronianus? / Jan Den Boeft Boeft, Jan Den 221

Emperors' Physiognomy / Raffaele Passarella Passarella, Raffaele 233

Morltti, Nisi modum epistolici characteris excederem. Jerome and Epistolary brevitas / Paola Francesca Francesca, Paola 247

Lucretia in the World of Sophistopolis: A Rhetorical Reading of Aug. Civ. i. 19 / Luigi Pirovano Pirovano, Luigi 263

The Dynamics of Seneca's Reception in the Late Ancient Christian Tradition: Some Methodological Remarks / Chiara Torrl Torrl, Chiara 279

Histoires de mots. À propos des adjectifs imatilis, vernatilis el venatilis de Cassiod. Var. in. 53. 1 / Nicoletta Brocca Brocca, Nicoletta 293

Spoudogeloion, Hyperbole and Myth in Fulgentius' Mythologiae / Martina Venuti Venuti, Martina 307

Section III The Transmission of the Cultural Heritage: School, Texts, and Paratexts

Macrobius and Servius: Commenting Strategies in Comparison / Isabella Canetta Canetta, Isabella 325

[Abunde] sufreccrat... sed: un' idea ricorrente nelle Interpretationes Vergilianae di Tiberio Claudio Donato / Alice Daghini Daghini, Alice 335

The Distichs of Cato in Late Antique Spain / W. Martin Bloomer Bloomer, W. Martin 345

Tra Porfirione e Servio: annotazioni Pseudacronee sull'ode I. 37 di Orazio / Chiara Formenti Formenti, Chiara 365.

Notes:

Includes papers from the international conference "Trasformazione e trasmissione dei modelli culturali e letterari nella tarda antichità latina" held in Milan, May 27-28, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9782503557359

250355735X

OCLC:

922462571

Publisher Number:

99970220123