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Poems in Context : Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD / Laura Miguélez-Cavero.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Sozomena : Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts ; 2Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (442 p.) : 2 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110202731
  • 9783110210415
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 881.0109932 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • PA3082 .M549 2008eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. The so-called school of Nonnus in the -- literary context of Panopolis (3rd–6th c. AD) -- Chapter 2. Common stylistic features -- Chapter 3. The role of culture and education in -- Panopolis (3rd–6th c. AD) -- Chapter 4. Influence of school-practice on poetry: -- The progymnasmata -- Chapter 5. Conclusions -- Backmatter
Dissertation note: Dissertation Oxford University 2006. Summary: Examining carefully the Egyptian epic hexameter production from the 3rd to the 6th centuries AD, especially that of the southern region (Thebaid), this study provides an image of three centuries in the history of the Graeco-Egyptian literature, in which authors and poetry are related directly to the social-economic, cultural and literary contexts from which they come. The training they could get and the books and authors they came in touch with explain that we know so many names and works, written in a language and metrics that enjoyed the greatest esteem, being considered proofs of the highest culture. Laura Miguélez Cavero demonstrates that the traditional image of a “school of Nonnos” is not justified - rather, Triphiodorus, Nonnus, Musaeus, Colluthus, Cyrus of Panopolis and Christodorus of Coptos are just the tip of a literary iceberg we know only to some extent through the texts that papyri offer us.
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Dissertation Oxford University 2006.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. The so-called school of Nonnus in the -- literary context of Panopolis (3rd–6th c. AD) -- Chapter 2. Common stylistic features -- Chapter 3. The role of culture and education in -- Panopolis (3rd–6th c. AD) -- Chapter 4. Influence of school-practice on poetry: -- The progymnasmata -- Chapter 5. Conclusions -- Backmatter

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Examining carefully the Egyptian epic hexameter production from the 3rd to the 6th centuries AD, especially that of the southern region (Thebaid), this study provides an image of three centuries in the history of the Graeco-Egyptian literature, in which authors and poetry are related directly to the social-economic, cultural and literary contexts from which they come. The training they could get and the books and authors they came in touch with explain that we know so many names and works, written in a language and metrics that enjoyed the greatest esteem, being considered proofs of the highest culture. Laura Miguélez Cavero demonstrates that the traditional image of a “school of Nonnos” is not justified - rather, Triphiodorus, Nonnus, Musaeus, Colluthus, Cyrus of Panopolis and Christodorus of Coptos are just the tip of a literary iceberg we know only to some extent through the texts that papyri offer us.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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