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Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition
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ISBN: 9783110791907 9783110791792 311079179X Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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This volume offers an innovative exploration of the diverse ways in which Later Greek Epic interacts with the Latin literary tradition. A comprehensive introduction on the "status quaestionis" is followed by seven chapters that focus on key texts of Imperial hexameter poetry, and offer original perspectives on established cultural relationships between the Greek and the Latin epic traditions, at a time when the understanding of these relationships is being reassessed.


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Geography, Topography, Landscape
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ISBN: 3110315319 9783110315318 130646255X 9781306462556 3110314738 9783110314731 9783110314731 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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By introducing a multifaceted approach to epic geography, the editors of the volume wish to provide a critical assessment of spatial perception, of its repercussions on shaping narrative as well as of its discursive traits and cultural contexts. Taking the genre-specific boundaries of Greco-Roman epic poetry as a case in point, a team of international scholars examines issues that lie at the heart of modern criticism on human geography. Modern and ancient discourse on space representations revolves around the nation-shaping force of geography, the gendered dynamics of landscapes, the topography of isolation and integration, the politics of imperialism, globalization, environmentalism as well as the power of language and narrative to turn space into place. One of the major aims of the volume is to show that the world of the Classics is not just the origin, but the essence of current debates on spatial constructions and reconstructions.


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Nonnus of Panopolis in Context
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ISBN: 9783110339376 3110339374 9783110339420 9789004341197 3110339420 9783110339437 3110339439 3110368110 9783110368116 9789004443235 9789004443259 9004443258 9004443231 9004341196 Year: 2014 Volume: 408 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Nonnus of Panopolis (fifth century CE) composed two poems once thought to be incompatible: the Dionysiaca, a mythological long epic with a marked interest in astrology, the occult, the paradox and not least the beauty of the female body, and a pious and sublime Paraphrase of the Gospel of St John. Little is known about the man, to whom sundry identities have been attached. The longer work has been misrepresented as a degenerate poem or as a mythological handbook. The Christian poem has been neglected or undervalued. Yet, Nonnus accomplished an ambitious plan, in two parts, aiming at representing world-history. This volume consists mainly of the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Nonnus held in Rethymno, Crete in May 2011. With twentyfour essays, an international team of specialists place Nonnus firmly in his time's context. After an authoritative Introduction by Pierre Chuvin, chapters on Nonnus and the literary past, the visual arts, Late Antique paideia, Christianity and his immediate and long-range afterlife (to modern times) offer a wide-ranging and innovative insight into the man and his world. The volume moves on beyond stereotypes to inaugurate a new era of research for Nonnus and Late Antique poetics on the whole.

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