Classics Renewed

Reception and Innovation in the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity

Scott McGill, Joseph Pucci

• Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9783825375652
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Originally delivered at a bi-coastal conference on Late Latin poetry held in 2011 at Rice University and at Brown University, these essays explore some of the defining traits of the Late Latin poetic tradition, offering a sense of how Late Latin poetry was both conservative and innovative: its authors were grounded in the past, yet willing to take established models in new directions and to produce fresh forms in a contemporary literary milieu. More than this, these essays present fresh interpretive perspectives that accept the differences between Late Latin poets and their classical predecessors and develop new critical approaches that respond to those differences. In the process, they arrive at a novel understanding of a large group of Late Latin poets and their texts and suggest some of the ways in which readers can profitably engage the new forms, content, and concerns that mark the Latin poetry of Late Antiquity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Titel
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Editors’ Introduction
• Marc MASTRANGELO, Toward a Poetics of Late Latin Reuse
• Scott MCGILL, Arms and Amen: Virgil in Juvencus’ "Evangeliorum libri IV"
• Dennis TROUT, Poetry on Stone: Epigram and Audience in Rome
• Sigrid Schottenius CULLHED, Patterning Past and Future: Virgil in Proba’s Biblical Cento
• Joseph PUCCI, Ausonius on the Lyre: "De Bissula" and the Traditions of Latin Lyric
• Bret MULLIGAN, Translation and the Poetics of Replication in Late Antique Latin Epigrams
• Catherine WARE, Dreams of Genre and Inspiration: Multiple Allusion in Claudian ("VI Cons., praefatio")
• STEPHEN M. WHEELER The Emperor’s Love of Rome in Claudian’s "Panegyric on the Sixth Consulate of Honorius"
• Gerard O’DALY, Prudentius: The Self-Definition of a Christian Poet
• Petra SCHIERL, A Preacher in Arcadia? Reconsidering Tityrus Christianus
• E. J. HUTCHINSON, Words Made Strange: The Presence of Virgil in the Miracles of Sedulius’ "Paschale carmen"
• Michael W. HERREN, Dracontius, the Pagan Gods, and Stoicism
• Ian FIELDING, A Greek Source for Maximianus’ Greek Girl: Late Latin Love Elegy and the Greek Anthology
• Michael ROBERTS, Elegy and Elegiacs: Venantius Fortunatus and Beyond
• David F. BRIGHT, Carolingian Hypertext: Visual and Textual Structures in Hrabanus Maurus, "In honorem Sanctae Crucis"
• List of Works Cited
• Index
• Contributors
• Dedication / Acknowledgement