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Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity

Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity

Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity

Form, Tradition, and Context
Berenice Verhelst , Universiteit van Amsterdam
Tine Scheijnen , Universiteit Gent, Belgium
June 2022
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9781316516058

    Although Greek and Latin poetry from late antiquity each poses similar questions and problems, a real dialogue between scholars on both sides is even now conspicuously absent. A lack of evidence impedes discussion of whether there was direct interaction between the two language traditions. This volume, however, starts from the premise that direct interaction should never be a prerequisite for a meaningful comparative and contextualising analysis of both late antique poetic traditions. A team of leading and emerging scholars sheds new light on literary developments that can be or have been regarded as typical of the period and on the poetic and aesthetic ideals that affected individual works, which are both classicizing and 'un-classical' in similar and diverging ways. This innovative exploration of the possibilities created by a bilingual focus should stimulate further explorations in future research.

    • Presents new insights into late antique poetry as a result of an intensive collaboration and dialogue between scholars of both Greek and Latin
    • Each chapter considers texts from both language traditions and highlights typically late antique features and developments
    • Focuses on the 'otherness' of late antique poetry in all its facets

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    June 2022
    Hardback
    9781316516058
    300 pages
    235 × 155 × 20 mm
    0.6kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction. Walking the wire. Towards an inclusive approach to Latin and Greek late antique poetry Berenice Verhelst and Tine Scheijnen
    • Part I:
    • 1. Rivaling song-contests and alternative Typhonomachies in Ovid and Nonnus: revisiting the issue of Latin influence on Greek poetry in Late Antiquity Katerina Carvounis and Sophia Papaioannou
    • 2. Greek and Roman epigrammatists in the later imperial period: Ausonius and Palladas in dialogue with the classical past Silvio Bär
    • 3. Allusion and referentiality in late antique epic Calum Maciver
    • 4. Speaking from the margins: paratexts in Greek and Latin poetry Aaron Pelttari
    • Part II:
    • 5. The implosion of poetic genre in Late Antiquity Helen Kaufmann
    • 6. Common texts, (un)common aesthetics: the Greek and Latin cento in dialogue Brian Sowers
    • 7. A 'revival' of the 'epyllion' as a 'genre'? Genre awareness in short epic narrative from Late Antiquity Berenice Verhelst
    • Part III:
    • 8. Saying the other. The poetics of personification in late antique epic Emma Greensmith
    • 9. Internal audiences in the New Testament epics of Juvencus and Nonnus Laura Miguélez-Cavero
    • 10. Colluthus and Dracontius: mythical traditions and innovations Marcelina Gilka
    • 11. Objects of the lusting gaze: viewing women as works of art in late antique poetry Sophie Schoess
    • 12. Metamorphosis and mutability in late antique epic Philip Hardie.
      Contributors
    • Berenice Verhelst, Tine Scheijnen, Katerina Carvounis, Sophia Papaioannou, Silvio Bär, Calum Maciver, Aaron Pelttari, Helen Kaufmann, Brian Sowers, Emma Greensmith, Laura Miguélez-Cavero, Marcelina Gilka, Sophie Schoess, Philip Hardie

    • Editors
    • Berenice Verhelst

      BERENICE VERHELST is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. She is the author of Direct Speech in Nonnus' Dionysiaca (2017) and the editor of the fourth Nonnus in Context volume (2022).

    • Tine Scheijnen

      TINE SCHEIJNEN is a Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Literary Studies (Greek section) at the Universiteit Gent. She is the author of Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica: A Study in Heroic Characterization and Heroism (2018).

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