Texts and culture in Late Antiquity: inheritance, authority, and change /

Other Authors: Scourfield, J. H. D., Chahoud, Anna
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, c2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Textual inheritances and textual relations in late antiquity / J.H.D. Scourfield
  • A new created world : classical geographical texts and Christian contexts in late antiquity / Mark Humphries
  • Antiquity and authority in Nonius Marcellus / Anna Chahoud
  • More Roman than the Romans of Rome : Virgilian (self-)fashioning in Claudian's Panegyric for the consuls Olybrius and Probinus / Stephen Wheeler
  • Birth and transfiguration : some gospel episodes in Juvenus and Sedulius / Roger P.H. Green
  • Virgil, Christianity, and the Cento probae / Scott McGill
  • The Bible hellenized : Nonnus' Paraphrase of St. John's Gospel and 'Eudocia's' Homeric centos / Mary Whitby
  • Plotinus and the myth of love / Andrew Smith
  • John of Stobi on the soul / John Dillon
  • What's in a divine name? : Proclus on Plato's Cratylus / R.M. van den Berg
  • Pagans and Christians on providence / Andrew Louth
  • Jerome, Virgil, and the captive maiden : the attitude of Jerome to classical literature / Ann Mohr
  • John Cassian, the Instituta Aegyptorum, and the apostolic church / Richard J. Goodrich.