The genres of late antique Christian poetry : between modulations and transpositions / edited by Fotini Hadjittofi and Anna Lefteratou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hadjittofi, Fotini, editor.

Lefteratou, Anna, editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 86.

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 86

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian poetry, Early--History and criticism.

Christian poetry, Early.

Christian poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Christian poetry, Greek.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 335 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Generic Debates and Late Antique Christian Poetry

Metrical Inscriptions in Late Antiquity: What Difference Did Christianity Make?

Writing Classicizing Epigrams in Sixth-Century Constantinople: The Funerary Poems of Julian the Egyptian

The Poet and the Light: Modulation and Transposition of a Prudentian Ekphrasis in Two Poems by Sidonius Apollinaris

Poetological Name-Dropping: Explicit References to Poets and Genres in Gregory Nazianzen’s Poems

The Significance of Meter in the Biblical Poems of Gregory Nazianzen (carmina I.1.12–27)

Some Οbservations on the Genre of Dracontius’ Satisfactio

Do Dracontius’ Epyllia Have a Christian Apologetic Agenda?

Dracontius’ Medea and the Classical Tradition: Divine Influence and Human Action

The Late Roman Alcestis and the Applicability of Generic Labels to Two Short Narrative Poems

The ‘Profanity’ of Jesus’ Storm-calming Miracle (Juvencus 2.25–42) and the Flaws of Kontrastimitation

Writing a Homeric-Christian Poem: The Case of Eudocia Augusta’s Saint Cyprian

Did Nonnus Really Want to Write a ‘Gospel Epic’? The Ambiguous Genre of the Paraphrase of the Gospel According to John

Nonnus’ Paraphrase of the Gospel According to John as Didactic Epic

Davidic Didactic Hexameters: The Generic Stance of the Metaphrasis Psalmorum

The Lament of the Virgin in the I Homeric Centos: An Early Threnos

George Pisides’ Expeditio Persica and Discourses on Warfare in Late Antiquity

List of Contributors

Index Auctorum Locorumque

Thematic Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-069621-5

OCLC:

1202625218