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Aetas Claudianea

Author : Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783598730207
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Aetas Claudianea by : Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers

Download or read book Aetas Claudianea written by Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late-antique Roman poet Claudian has enjoyed an upsurge of interest in his work for some thirty years. In spite of increasing appreciation for his artistry, Claudian's position within the history of Latin literature has not been clearly defined. This volume presents the results of the first symposium ever devoted to Claudian and Latin literature. Well-known scholars such as Franca Ela Consolino, Manfred Fuhrmann, Siegmar Döpp, Isabella Gualandri, Jacqueline Long, and Peter Lebrecht Schmidt join several younger scholars to cast new light on the literary and cultural context of Claudian's works, on his themes and preoccupations, his aesthetics, and on the later reception of his work. The different contributions together give a sense not only of unity within the varied corpus of Claudian's poetry, which comprises political and mythological epic, epigrams, and elegies, but also of how much Claudian is representative of the major trends of his times. Finally, the book shows how far modern criticism has advanced towards an integrated understanding of Claudian's work.

Education, Religion, and Literary Culture in the 4th Century CE

Author : Gabriela Ryser
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647573213
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis Education, Religion, and Literary Culture in the 4th Century CE by : Gabriela Ryser

Download or read book Education, Religion, and Literary Culture in the 4th Century CE written by Gabriela Ryser and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contextualizes Claudian's handling of the Proserpina myth and the underworld in the history of literature and religion while showing intersections with and differences between the literary and religious uses of the underworld topos. In doing so, the study provides an incentive to rethink the dichotomy of the terms 'religious' and 'non-religious' in favour of a more nuanced model of references and refunctionalisations of elements which are, or could be, religiously connotated. A close philological analysis of De raptu Proserpinae identifies the sphere of myth and poetry as an area of expressive freedom, a parallel universe to theological discourses (whether they be pagan-philosophical or Christian), while the profound understanding and skilful use of this particular sphere – a formative aspect of European religious and intellectual history – is postulated as a characteristic of the educated Roman and of Claudian's poetry.

Transformations of the Classics via Early Modern Commentaries

Author : Karl A. E.. Enenkel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004260781
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Transformations of the Classics via Early Modern Commentaries by : Karl A. E.. Enenkel

Download or read book Transformations of the Classics via Early Modern Commentaries written by Karl A. E.. Enenkel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commentaries played an important role in the transmission of the classical heritage. Early modern intellectuals rarely read classical authors in a simple and “direct” form, but generally via intermediary paratexts, especially all kinds of commentaries. Commentaries presented the classical texts in certain ways that determined and guided the readers’ perception and usages of the texts being commented upon. Early modern commentaries shaped not only school and university education and professional scholarship, but also intellectual and cultural life in the broadest sense, including politics, religion, art, entertainment, health care, geographical discoveries etc., and even various professional activities and segments of life that were seemingly far removed from scholarship and learning, such as warfare and engineering. Contributors include: Susanna de Beer, Valéry Berlincourt, Marijke Crab, Jeanine De Landtsheer, Karl Enenkel, Gergő Gellérfi, Trine Arlund Hass, Ekaterina Ilyushechkina, Ronny Kaiser, Marc Laureys, Christoph Pieper, Katharina Suter-Meyer, and Floris Verhaart.

Cityscaping

Author : Therese Fuhrer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110400960
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Cityscaping by : Therese Fuhrer

Download or read book Cityscaping written by Therese Fuhrer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term ‘cityscaping’ is here introduced to characterise the creative process through which the image of the city is created and represented in various media– text, film and artefacts. It thus turns attention away from built urban spaces and onto mental images of cities. One focus is on the question of which literary, visual and acoustic means prompt their recipients’ spatial imagination; another is to inquire into the semantics and functions that are ascribed to the image of a city as constructed in various media. The examples of ancient texts and works of art, and modern literature and films, are used to elucidate the artistic potential of images of the city and the techniques by which they are semanticised. With its interdisciplinary approach, the volume for the first time makes clear how strongly mental images of urban space, both ancient and modern, have been shaped by the techniques of their representation in media.

The Limits of Exactitude in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Literature and Textual Transmission

Author : Nicoletta Bruno
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311079666X
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis The Limits of Exactitude in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Literature and Textual Transmission by : Nicoletta Bruno

Download or read book The Limits of Exactitude in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Literature and Textual Transmission written by Nicoletta Bruno and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on Calvino’s observations on Exactitude in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the present book elucidates on the possible definitions of exactitude, the endeavor of reaching exactitude, and the undeniable limits to the achievement of this ambitious milestone. The eighteen essays in this interdisciplinary volume show how ancient and medieval authors have been dealing with the problem of exactitude vs. inexactitude and have been able to exploit the ambiguities related to these two concepts to various ends. The articles focus on rhetoric and historiography (section I), exact sciences and technical disciplines (II), the peculiarity of quotations (III), cases of programmatic inexactitude (IV) and textual transmission (V). Several interconnected questions weave a net across the volume: to what extent is exactitude the goal in ancient and medieval texts? How can the concepts of accuracy and inaccuracy aid the reinterpretation of an already known text or fact? To what extent can certain definitions of exactitude be stretched, without turning into inexactitude? The volume presents an extensive study capable of highlighting the shrewdness and aptness of the concepts introduced by Calvino more than thirty years ago.

Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature

Author : Theodore D. Papanghelis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110303698
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature by : Theodore D. Papanghelis

Download or read book Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature written by Theodore D. Papanghelis and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither older empiricist positions that genre is an abstract concept, useless for the study of individual works of literature, nor the recent (post) modern reluctance to subject literary production to any kind of classification seem to have stilled the discussion on the various aspects of genre in classical literature. Having moved from more or less essentialist and/or prescriptive positions towards a more dynamic conception of the generic model, research on genre is currently considering "pushing beyond the boundaries", "impurity", "instability", "enrichment" and "genre-bending". The aim of this volume is to raise questions of such generic mobility in Latin literature. The papers explore ways in which works assigned to a particular generic area play host to formal and substantive elements associated with different or even opposing genres; assess literary works which seem to challenge perceived generic norms; highlight, along the literary-historical, the ideological and political backgrounds to "dislocations" of the generic map.

Honorius

Author : Chris Doyle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317278070
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis Honorius by : Chris Doyle

Download or read book Honorius written by Chris Doyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorius explores the personal life and tumultuous times of one of the last emperors of the Roman West. From his accession to the throne aged ten to his death at thirty-eight, Honorius’ reign was blighted by a myriad of crises: military rebellions, political conspiracies, barbarian invasions, and sectarian controversies. The notorious sack of the city of Rome occurred on Honorius’ watch, and much of the western empire was given over to anarchy and violence. This book should interest undergraduates, research students, and professional scholars. Given the enduring appeal of the fall of Rome and the collapse of western Roman civilization, the wider public should also find much of interest.

The Sites of Rome

Author : David H. J. Larmour
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019152719X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sites of Rome by : David H. J. Larmour

Download or read book The Sites of Rome written by David H. J. Larmour and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome was a building site for much of its history, a city continually reshaped and reconstituted in line with political and cultural change. In later times, the conjunction of ruins and rebuilding lent the cityscape a particularly fascinating character, much exploited by artists and writers. This layering and changing of vistas also finds expression in the literary tradition, from classical times right up to the twenty-first-century. This collection of essays offers glimpses, sideways glances and unexpected angles that open up Rome in its widest possible sense, and explores how the visible components of Rome - the hills, the Tiber, the temples, the Forums, the Colosseum, the statues and monuments - operate as, or become, the sites/sights of Rome.The analyses are informed by contemporary critical thinking and draw on ancient historical narrative, Roman poetry, Renaissance literature and cartography, art of the Grand Tour era, Russian and Soviet interpretations, and twentieth-century cinema.

New Perspectives on Late Antiquity

Author : David Hernández de la Fuente
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443828092
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis New Perspectives on Late Antiquity by : David Hernández de la Fuente

Download or read book New Perspectives on Late Antiquity written by David Hernández de la Fuente and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps it is fully justified to think of Late Antiquity (3rd–7th centuries) as the first Renaissance of the Classical World. This period can be considered a fundamental landmark for the transmission of the Classical Legacy and the transition between the ancient and the medieval individual. During Late Antiquity the Classical Education or enkyklios paideia of Hellenism was linked definitively to the Judeo-Christian and Germanic elements that have modelled the Western World. The present volume combines diverse interests and methodologies with a single purpose—unity and diversity, as a Neo-Platonic motto—providing an overall picture of the new means of researching Late Antiquity. This collective endeavour, stemming from the 2009 1st International Congress on Late Antiquity in Segovia (Spain), focuses not only on the analysis of new materials and latest findings, but rather puts together different perspectives offering a scientific update and a dialogue between several disciplines. New Perspectives on Late Antiquity contains two main sections—1. Ancient History and Archaeology, and 2. Philosophy and Classical Studies—including both overview papers and case studies. Among the contributors to this volume are some of the most relevant scholars in their fields, including P. Brown, J. Alvar, P. Barceló, C. Codoñer, F. Fronterotta, D. Gigli, F. Lisi and R. Sanz.

Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455

Author : Meaghan A. McEvoy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019164210X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455 by : Meaghan A. McEvoy

Download or read book Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455 written by Meaghan A. McEvoy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, McEvoy explodes the myth that the remarkable phenomenon of the late Roman child-emperor reflected mere dynastic sentiment or historical accident. Tracing the course of the frequently tumultuous, but nevertheless lengthy, reigns of young western emperors in the years AD 367-455, she looks at the way in which the sophistication of the Roman system made their accessions and survival possible. The book highlights how these reigns allowed for individual generals to dominate the Roman state and in what manner the crucial role of Christianity, together with the vested interests of various factions within the imperial elite, contributed to a transformation of the imperial image - enabling and facilitating the adaptation of existing imperial ideology to portray boys as young as six as viable rulers. It also analyses the struggles which ensued upon a child-emperor reaching adulthood and seeking to take up functions which had long been delegated during his childhood. Through the phenomenon of child-emperor rule, McEvoy demonstrates the major changes taking place in the nature of the imperial office in late antiquity, which had significant long-term impacts upon the way the Roman state came to be ruled and, in turn, the nature of rulership in the early medieval and Byzantine worlds to follow.

Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity

Author : Willemien Otten
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047421329
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity by : Willemien Otten

Download or read book Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity written by Willemien Otten and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a broad variety of specifically Christian approaches to poetry and analyses modes of interpreting the Bible that are new in poetry compared with prose exegesis. Both theoretical statements on poetry by Christians and concrete poetic works from roughly 300 to 1250 AD are taken into account.

Claudian and the Roman Epic Tradition

Author : Catherine Ware
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107013437
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Claudian and the Roman Epic Tradition by : Catherine Ware

Download or read book Claudian and the Roman Epic Tradition written by Catherine Ware and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical importance of Claudian as writer of panegyric and propaganda for the court of Honorius is well established but his poetry has been comparatively neglected: only recently has his work been the subject of modern literary criticism. Taking as its starting point Claudian's claim to be the heir to Virgil, this book examines his poetry as part of the Roman epic tradition. Discussing first what we understand by epic and its relevance for late antiquity, Catherine Ware argues that, like Virgil and later Roman epic poets, Claudian analyses his contemporary world in terms of classical epic. Engaging intertextually with his literary predecessors, Claudian updates concepts such as furor and concordia, redefining Romanitas to exclude the increasingly hostile east, depicting enemies of the west as new Giants and showing how the government of Honorius and his chief minister, Stilicho, have brought about a true golden age for the west.

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature

Author : Ralph Hexter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199875197
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature written by Ralph Hexter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-eight essays in this Handbook represent the best of current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. The insights offered by the collective of authors not only illuminate the field of medieval Latin literature but shed new light on broader questions of literary history, cultural interaction, world literature, and language in history and society. The contributors to this volume--a collection of both senior scholars and gifted young thinkers--vividly illustrate the field's complexities on a wide range of topics through carefully chosen examples and challenges to settled answers of the past. At the same time, they suggest future possibilities for the necessarily provisional and open-ended work essential to the pursuit of medieval Latin studies. While advanced specialists will find much here to engage and at times to provoke them, this handbook successfully orients non-specialists and students to this thriving field of study. The overall approach of The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature makes this volume an essential resource for students of the ancient world interested in the prolonged after-life of the classical period's cultural complexes, for medieval historians, for scholars of other medieval literary traditions, and for all those interested in delving more deeply into the fascinating more-than-millennium that forms the bridge between the ancient Mediterranean world and what we consider modernity.

The Apostles in Early Christian Art and Poetry

Author : Roald Dijkstra
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004309748
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis The Apostles in Early Christian Art and Poetry by : Roald Dijkstra

Download or read book The Apostles in Early Christian Art and Poetry written by Roald Dijkstra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Apostles in Early Christian Art and Poetry the relation between visual and poetic images of Christ’s closest followers is discussed from the time of the first Christian figural images and poetry till the political end of the undivided Roman Empire (250-400).

A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry

Author : Victoria Moul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107192714
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry by : Victoria Moul

Download or read book A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry written by Victoria Moul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first account of the bilingualism of English poetic culture from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.

Latin Panegyric

Author : Roger Rees
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0199576718
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Latin Panegyric written by Roger Rees and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin Panegyric represents modern readings on the collection of classical Latin oratory addressed to Roman emperors. With a full introduction, and with four essays translated into English for the first time, the volume plots the narratives of Roman praise and gives students of classical literature and rhetoric direct access to key scholarship.

Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD

Author : Lieve Van Hoof
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004279474
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD written by Lieve Van Hoof and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging ideas about the declining social role and impact of literature in Late Antiquity, Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD demonstrates how Greek and Latin literature of the fourth century AD continued to play an important role in public performance and debate, the creation of reality, and self-presentation.