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Studies in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen /
This first monograph in English on Colluthus situates this late antique author within his cultural context and offers a new appraisal of his hexameter poem The Abduction of Helen, the end-point of the pagan Greek epic tradition, which was composed in the Christianised Egyptian Thebaid. The book eval...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Late antique literature ;
volume 380. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Conventions and Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Colluthus in His Context; 1 Colluthus' Life; 2 Literary Culture at the Time of Anastasius; 3 Colluthus and the Epyllion as a Genre; Chapter 2 Colluthus and His Models; 1 A Bucolic Opening; 1.1 A Poetic Manifesto; 1.2 The Introduction of Paris; 2 An Epic Eris; 2.1 The Gadfly; 2.2 Eris' Plan of Destruction; 3 Aphrodite's Agon; 3.1 Aphrodite's Toilette; 3.2 The Agon; 3.3 Aphrodite's Invective; Chapter 3 Colluthus' Visual Epyllion; 1 Visuality in Literature; 2 Colluthus' Visual Terminology.
- 3 Description of Characters' Gestures and Appearance3.1 Paris' Visual Evolution; 4 Visual Power and its Impact on the Characters; 4.1 Paris' Journey to Sparta; 4.2 The First Encounter of Paris and Helen; 5 Performative Aspects; Chapter 4 Colluthus' Polyphonic Epyllion; 1 The Narratology of Colluthus' Abduction of Helen; 2 Auctorial Addresses; 2.1 Address to Dionysus; 2.2 Phyllis; 3 Characters' Addresses; 3.1 Hermione; 3.2 Paris; 4 Direct Speech, Psychology and Evaluation of Characters; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index Locorum; General Index.