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The Paradigm of Simias : Essays on Poetic Eccentricity / Jan Kwapisz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 75Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (X, 193 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110635935
  • 9783110636048
  • 9783110640106
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PA4410.S65 K93 2019
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Paradigm of Simias -- 1. The Three Preoccupations of Simias of Rhodes -- 2. Laevius’ Broken Wing and the Banquet of Riddlers -- 3. Optatian Porfyry and the Order of Court Riddlers -- 4. The Invention of the Figure Poem in Byzantium -- Appendix: A New Alexandria and its Little Museum -- Bibliography -- Index of Sources and Passages Cited -- General Index
Dissertation note: Habilitation University of Warsaw 2017. Summary: This book’s concern is with notoriously obscure ancient poets-riddlers, whom it argues to have been an essential, albeit necessarily marginal, element of the literary landscape of Antiquity, which, in addition, exerted subtle yet lasting influence on European culture. The three first essays in this book trace a direct line of influence between the early Hellenistic scholar-poet Simias of Rhodes, the late Republican Roman experimentalist Laevius and Constantine the Great’s virtuoso panegyrist Optatian Porfyry, whereas the fourth essay discusses the preservation and transformation of the model invented by Simias in Byzantium. The Appendix reflects on the triumph of this intellectual paradigm in Neo-Latin Jesuit education by investigating the case of a peripheral yet highly influential Central European college at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book is at once a contribution to the scholarship on the reception of Hellenistic poetry and to the study of ancient ‘technopaegnia’ (i.e. playful poetry) and their cultural influence in Antiquity, Byzantium and post-mediaeval Europe.

Habilitation University of Warsaw 2017.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Paradigm of Simias -- 1. The Three Preoccupations of Simias of Rhodes -- 2. Laevius’ Broken Wing and the Banquet of Riddlers -- 3. Optatian Porfyry and the Order of Court Riddlers -- 4. The Invention of the Figure Poem in Byzantium -- Appendix: A New Alexandria and its Little Museum -- Bibliography -- Index of Sources and Passages Cited -- General Index

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This book’s concern is with notoriously obscure ancient poets-riddlers, whom it argues to have been an essential, albeit necessarily marginal, element of the literary landscape of Antiquity, which, in addition, exerted subtle yet lasting influence on European culture. The three first essays in this book trace a direct line of influence between the early Hellenistic scholar-poet Simias of Rhodes, the late Republican Roman experimentalist Laevius and Constantine the Great’s virtuoso panegyrist Optatian Porfyry, whereas the fourth essay discusses the preservation and transformation of the model invented by Simias in Byzantium. The Appendix reflects on the triumph of this intellectual paradigm in Neo-Latin Jesuit education by investigating the case of a peripheral yet highly influential Central European college at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book is at once a contribution to the scholarship on the reception of Hellenistic poetry and to the study of ancient ‘technopaegnia’ (i.e. playful poetry) and their cultural influence in Antiquity, Byzantium and post-mediaeval Europe.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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