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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... questions, great and small (and of course answers to small questions often contribute to the solution of major problems), which need careful assessment or reappraisal; and, above all, it needs to be explained for all who are interested ...
... questions, great and small (and of course answers to small questions often contribute to the solution of major problems), which need careful assessment or reappraisal; and, above all, it needs to be explained for all who are interested ...
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... question of the aims of our three epicists is not an easy one to answer, though one frequently and rightly asked. Obviously, they would have appeal only for the well educated, those who had an appreciation of classical epic. There is no ...
... question of the aims of our three epicists is not an easy one to answer, though one frequently and rightly asked. Obviously, they would have appeal only for the well educated, those who had an appreciation of classical epic. There is no ...
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... question was that of dominus alone; the title dominus noster is in fact discontinued on coins from 324, although admittedly it continues in inscriptions, less easily subjected to central control.23 To eschew the title of dominus was a ...
... question was that of dominus alone; the title dominus noster is in fact discontinued on coins from 324, although admittedly it continues in inscriptions, less easily subjected to central control.23 To eschew the title of dominus was a ...
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... 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 of Augustine 13 (PL 32. 44) ...
... 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 of Augustine 13 (PL 32. 44) ...
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Juvencus, Sedulius, Arator Roger P. H. Green. The chronological question, then, is not one to be solved in conventional historical terms,34 and there are no grounds for doubting Jerome's date of 329. Marold drew attention to the fact ...
Juvencus, Sedulius, Arator Roger P. H. Green. The chronological question, then, is not one to be solved in conventional historical terms,34 and there are no grounds for doubting Jerome's date of 329. Marold drew attention to the fact ...
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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