Author: Claudius ClaudianusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Rape of Proserpine
Author: Claudius ClaudianusThe Rape of Proserpine
Author: Claudius ClaudianusClaudian: De Raptu Proserpinae
Author: Claudius ClaudianusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521609302
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An exhaustive study of Claudian's unfinished mythological epic, with a text, apparatus criticus, and commentary. The long introduction begins with a catalogue of manuscripts; and this leads to an investigation into the manuscript tradition and the history of the poem's transmission. Dr Hall then surveys the most important printed editions of the poem. He examines various theories of dating and discusses the sources of the story. He concludes the introduction with a brief critical assessment of the form and style of the poem. Dr Hall establishes his text after an examination of all the extant manuscripts. The apparatus, though very full, is selective in that it records readings of younger manuscripts only when they offer something new. It also ignores trifling corruptions. The commentary is similarly selective. In general, it discusses everything relevant to the establishing of the text and ignores points of purely mythological and literary interest.
Claudian: De Raptu Proserpinae
Author: ClaudianPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521074421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
An exhaustive study of Claudian's unfinished mythological epic, with a text, apparatus criticus, and commentary. The long introduction begins with a catalogue of manuscripts; and this leads to an investigation into the manuscript tradition and the history of the poem's transmission. Dr Hall then surveys the most important printed editions of the poem. He examines various theories of dating and discusses the sources of the story. He concludes the introduction with a brief critical assessment of the form and style of the poem. Dr Hall establishes his text after an examination of all the extant manuscripts. The apparatus, though very full, is selective in that it records readings of younger manuscripts only when they offer something new. It also ignores trifling corruptions. The commentary is similarly selective. In general, it discusses everything relevant to the establishing of the text and ignores points of purely mythological and literary interest.
Claudian the Poet
Author: Clare CoombePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108614337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This comprehensive reassessment of the carmina maiora of the fourth-century poet Claudian contributes to the growing trend to recognize that Late Antique poets should be approached as just that: poets. Its methodology is developed from that of Michael Roberts' seminal The Jeweled Style. It analyzes Claudian's poetics and use of story telling to argue that the creation of a story world in which Stilicho, his patron, becomes an epic hero, and the barbarians are giants threatening both the borders of Rome and the order of the very universe is designed to convince his audience of a world-view in which it is only the Roman general who stands between them and cosmic chaos. The book also argues that Claudian uses the same techniques to promote the message that Honorius, young hero though he may seem, is not yet fit to rule, and that Stilicho's rightful position remains as his regent.
Panegyricus de Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augusti
Author: Claudius ClaudianusPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : la
Pages : 504
Book Description
Claudian is often called the last poet of the classical tradition. This edition of his last extant work offers a newly edited text with facing English translation. A superb example of the literature of late antiquity, it records in exquisite verse the splendor of the western imperial court and serves as a historical witness to the events and attitudes of the last years of the Roman empire. The introduction and commentary analyze the historical background and, more importantly, Claudian's language, style, imagery, and use of other Greek and Latin sources.
Repeat Performances
Author: Laurel FulkersonPublisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299307506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The uses and effects of repetition, imitation, and appropriation in Latin epic poetry.
The Poetics of Late Latin Literature
Author: Jaś ElsnerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190629630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant antiquity of Greece nor in the golden age of a Roman empire that spanned the Mediterranean, but more fundamentally in the original and problematic fusion of Greco-Roman culture with a new and unexpected foreign element-the arrival of Christianity as an exclusive state religion. For a host of reasons, traditionalist scholarship has failed to give a full and positive account of the formal, aesthetic and religious transformations of ancient poetics in Late Antiquity. The Poetics of Late Latin Literature attempts to capture the excitement and vibrancy of the living ancient tradition reinventing itself in a new context in the hands of a series of great Latin writers mainly from the fourth and fifth centuries AD. A series of the most distinguished expert voices in later Latin poetry as well as some of the most exciting new scholars have been specially commissioned to write new papers for this volume.
The Transvestite Achilles
Author: P. J. HeslinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139446738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Statius' Achilleid is a playful, witty, and open-ended epic in the manner of Ovid. As we follow Achilles' metamorphosis from wild boy to demure girl to lover to hero, the poet brilliantly illustrates a series of contrasting codes of behaviour: male and female, epic and elegiac. This first full-length study of the poem addresses not only the narrative itself, but also sets the myth of Achilles on Scyros within a broad interpretive framework. The exploration ranges from the reception of the Achilleid in Baroque opera to the anthropological parallels that have been adduced to explain Achilles' transvestism. The study's expansive approach, which includes Ovid and Ovidian reception, psychoanalytic perspectives and theorizations of gender in antiquity, makes it essential reading not only for students of Statius, but for students of Latin literature, and of gender in antiquity.
Texts, Editors, and Readers
Author: Richard John TarrantPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521766575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A critical reassessment of the methods of Latin textual criticism and editing, in a form accessible to non-specialists.