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Texts and culture in Late Antiquity : inheritance, authority, and change /

"Late Antiquity has increasingly been viewed as a period of transformation and dynamic change in its literature as in society and politics. In this volume, thirteen scholars focus on the intellectual and literary culture of the time, investigating complex relatinships between late-Antique autho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Scourfield, J. H. D., Chahoud, Anna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Swansea : Oakville, Conn. : Classical Press of Wales ; David Brown Co., 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Textual inheritances and textual relations in late antiquity / J.H.D. Scourfield
  • A new created world : classical geographical texts and Christian contexts in late antiquity / Mark Humphries
  • Antiquity and authority in Nonius Marcellus / Anna Chahoud
  • More Roman than the Romans of Rome : Virgilian (self- )fashioning in Claudian's Panegyric for the consuls Olybrius and Probinus / Stephen Wheeler
  • Birth and transfiguration : some gospel episodes in Juvenus and Sedulius / Roger P.H. Green
  • Virgil, Christianity, and the Cento probae / Scott McGill
  • The Bible hellenized : Nonnus' Paraphrase of St. John's Gospel and 'Eudocia's' Homeric centos / Mary Whitby
  • Plotinus and the myth of love / Andrew Smith
  • John of Stobi on the soul / John Dillon
  • What's in a divine name? : Proclus on Plato's Cratylus / R.M. van den Berg
  • Pagans and Christians on providence / Andrew Louth
  • Jerome, Virgil, and the captive maiden : the attitude of Jerome to classical literature / Ann Mohr
  • John Cassian, the Instituta Aegyptorum, and the apostolic church / Richard J. Goodrich.