Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity
Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity
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
Product details
December 2023Paperback
9781009013673
314 pages
229 × 152 × 17 mm
0.459kg
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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.
