Latin Epics of the New Testament: Juvencus, Sedulius, AratorLatin Epics of the New Testament is about the growth of Christianity, and in particular the challenge of engaging with the Roman intellectual elite and its highly sophisticated Graeco-Roman tradition. In this culture epics like those of Vergil and Lucan were highly valued for their language, their 'heroic' themes, and their Rome-centred ideologies. Roger Green examines each of these epics in detail, showing how the three authors Juvencus, Sedulius, and Arator repackage the New Testament as epic, and try to make a bridge between two very different cultures. He explores the fascinating questions of how these authors exploit epic themes such as gods, heroes, war, and fate, without playing down the very real theological concerns of their times. All these poets were popular in the Middle Ages and later, and are the pioneers of poetry that leads to Renaissance epic and the famous poems of John Milton. |
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... clear theological agenda. Arator, the best-documented of the three, lived a privileged but turbulent life in Ostrogothic Italy. Educated in Milan and Ravenna, he became, like Cassiodorus, a respected official at the Gothic court. Some ...
... clear theological agenda. Arator, the best-documented of the three, lived a privileged but turbulent life in Ostrogothic Italy. Educated in Milan and Ravenna, he became, like Cassiodorus, a respected official at the Gothic court. Some ...
Page xvii
... clear and accessible as Herzog's is intricate and demanding. Dealing very helpfully with all the biblical poets of this period, Roberts seeks to derive their poems from the scholastic exercise of rhetorical paraphrase. He begins by ...
... clear and accessible as Herzog's is intricate and demanding. Dealing very helpfully with all the biblical poets of this period, Roberts seeks to derive their poems from the scholastic exercise of rhetorical paraphrase. He begins by ...
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... clear. The chronological question, then, is not one to be solved. 26 See Plutarch, Caesar 60. 27 Cf. Panegyrici Latini (Mynors) 3. (11) 13 and 30. 28 Add to the references in Demandt (1989), 221 n. 37 (all hostile until Possidius, Life ...
... clear. The chronological question, then, is not one to be solved. 26 See Plutarch, Caesar 60. 27 Cf. Panegyrici Latini (Mynors) 3. (11) 13 and 30. 28 Add to the references in Demandt (1989), 221 n. 37 (all hostile until Possidius, Life ...
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... clear from the following line.58 The use of this interpretation does not of course make him a great scholar—any more than a particular choice of biblical interpretation makes. 53 1. 96–102. For Juvencus' omissions and reductions, see pp ...
... clear from the following line.58 The use of this interpretation does not of course make him a great scholar—any more than a particular choice of biblical interpretation makes. 53 1. 96–102. For Juvencus' omissions and reductions, see pp ...
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... clear memory of a good early training. He understands and handles Vergil confidently, and, as will later be shown in detail, can emulate and adapt not only his diction but also his narrative and rhetorical structures and a host of ...
... clear memory of a good early training. He understands and handles Vergil confidently, and, as will later be shown in detail, can emulate and adapt not only his diction but also his narrative and rhetorical structures and a host of ...
Contents
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2 Sedulius | 135 |
3 Arator | 251 |
4 Reception and Influence | 351 |
Conclusion | 373 |
Appendix 1 Juvencus and the Text of the New Testament | 385 |
Appendix 2 The Official Record of the Presentation of the Historia Apostolica | 391 |
Bibliography | 393 |
Index of Passages | 419 |
General Index | 432 |
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