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The Gospel 'according to Homer and Virgil' : cento and canon /

In the fourth century C.E. some Christians paraphrased the stories about Jesus' life in the style of classical epics. Imitating the genre of centos, they stitched together lines taken either from Homer (Greek) or Virgil (Latin). They thus created new texts out of the classical epics, while they...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sandnes, Karl Olav, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Colección:Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 138.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the context of the study
  • The rhetorical context of biblical epics
  • Why imitate classical texts?
  • What is a cento?
  • Faltonia Betitia Proba : the gospel "according to Virgil"
  • Eudocia Athenais : the gospel "according to Homer"
  • Summary.