Texts and Culture in Late Antiquity: Inheritance, Authority, and Change - Couverture rigide

Mark Humphries

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1905125178 ISBN 13 : 9781905125173

Editeur : Classical Press of Wales, 2007

Synopsis

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 relationships between late-Antique authors and the texts which they had inherited through the classical ('pagan') and Christian traditions. Particular emphasis is placed on works that carried special authority: Homer, Virgil, Plato, and the Bible. The volume thus contributes to the history of the reception of classical texts, and through its inclusiveness (classical and classicizing, philosophical, and patristic writing are all represented) seeks to offer a view of the textual world of late Antiquity as a unified whole. It affords a scholarly introduction to a sweep of late-Antique literature in Greek and Latin. Authors and genres discussed include Juvencus and Claudian, Plotinus and Proclus, Jerome and John Cassian, geographical and grammatical writing, and Christian cento.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

J.H.D. (David) Scourfield is Professor of Classics at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is the author of Consoling Heliodorus: A Commentary on Jerome, Letter 60 (Oxford, 1993), and of articles on late-Antique literature and the ancient novel. Current projects include a comprehensive study of the ancient letter of consolation, and (ed., with Monica R. Gale) a volume of essays on representations of violence in Latin literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Classical Press of Wales
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905125178
• ISBN 13: 9781905125173
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 346
• Éditeur: J.H.D. Scourfield
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible