TY - BOOK ID - 48219193 TI - Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry PY - 2019 SN - 9780520295773 9780520295780 0520295773 0520968425 0520295781 9780520968424 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Christian poetry, Latin KW - Political poetry, Latin KW - Christian poetry, Latin. KW - Literature. KW - Political poetry, Latin. KW - History and criticism. KW - Rome KW - Rome (Empire). KW - In literature. KW - History and criticism KW - In literature KW - Christian poetry, Latin - History and criticism KW - Political poetry, Latin - History and criticism KW - Rome - In literature KW - allegory. KW - antique poetics. KW - antiquity. KW - ausonius. KW - christian subjects. KW - classical traditions. KW - classicism. KW - classics. KW - claudian. KW - concord. KW - cosmic sense. KW - discord. KW - imperial past. KW - imperial poetry. KW - intertextuality. KW - late republican. KW - latin poetry. KW - non christian. KW - novelty. KW - paradox and miracle. KW - paulinus of nola. KW - poets. KW - prudentius. KW - relationship. KW - renaissance. KW - renouatio. KW - rome. KW - state religion. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48219193 AB - After centuries of near silence, Latin poetry underwent a renaissance in the late fourth and fifth centuries CE evidenced in the works of key figures such as Ausonius, Claudian, Prudentius, and Paulinus of Nola. This period of resurgence marked a milestone in the reception of the classics of late Republican and early imperial poetry. In Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry, Philip Hardie explores the ways in which poets writing on non-Christian and Christian subjects used the classical traditions of Latin poetry to construct their relationship with Rome's imperial past and present, and with the by now not-so-new belief system of the state religion, Christianity. The book pays particular attention to the themes of concord and discord, the ";cosmic sense"; of late antiquity, novelty and renouatio, paradox and miracle, and allegory. It is also a contribution to the ongoing discussion of whether there is an identifiably late antique poetics and a late antique practice of intertextuality. Not since Michael Robert's classic The Jeweled Style has a single book had so much to teach about the enduring power of Latin poetry in late antiquity. ER -