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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... quoted over the years. At the same time came his article on Arator, the need for which was originally overlooked by its editors; Arator was still, as Leimbach complained in 1876, ein Vergessener. Thraede's RAC article on Juvencus ...
... quoted over the years. At the same time came his article on Arator, the need for which was originally overlooked by its editors; Arator was still, as Leimbach complained in 1876, ein Vergessener. Thraede's RAC article on Juvencus ...
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... quoted it comes from the socalled European version of the OL, except in the case of Arator. My translations of it have been assisted by consultation of the Revised Standard Version. Abbreviations This list does not include abbreviations ...
... quoted it comes from the socalled European version of the OL, except in the case of Arator. My translations of it have been assisted by consultation of the Revised Standard Version. Abbreviations This list does not include abbreviations ...
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... quoting at this point, encouraged perhaps by the words of tribute to Constantine in Juvencus' so-called Epilogue ... quoted in full: Has mea mens fidei vires sanctique timoris cepit et in tantum lucet mihi gratia Christi versibus ut ...
... quoting at this point, encouraged perhaps by the words of tribute to Constantine in Juvencus' so-called Epilogue ... quoted in full: Has mea mens fidei vires sanctique timoris cepit et in tantum lucet mihi gratia Christi versibus ut ...
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... quoted above, he describes his work of translatio (this word was also used of translation) as almost word-for-word (paene ad verbum).41 It is instructive, in passing, to compare the judgement on Juvencus' work made about a century after ...
... quoted above, he describes his work of translatio (this word was also used of translation) as almost word-for-word (paene ad verbum).41 It is instructive, in passing, to compare the judgement on Juvencus' work made about a century after ...
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... quoted the line at Origines 4. 7. 6.76 It is of course true, as has been said of a different kind of poetry, that disease 'was a familiar subject with a familiar vocabulary',77 and there is no need to assume that he had had specialist ...
... quoted the line at Origines 4. 7. 6.76 It is of course true, as has been said of a different kind of poetry, that disease 'was a familiar subject with a familiar vocabulary',77 and there is no need to assume that he had had specialist ...
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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