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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... writers (and will remain so, even when presented in an environment of elegant Latin). Both the rhetorical and the philosophical traditions of Greece and Rome are often conspicuously despised by Christians. In the early centuries we hear ...
... writers (and will remain so, even when presented in an environment of elegant Latin). Both the rhetorical and the philosophical traditions of Greece and Rome are often conspicuously despised by Christians. In the early centuries we hear ...
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... writing. He is less of a paraphraser and more obviously an exegete than Juvencus, and his presentation of Christ is moulded by a very clear theological agenda. Arator, the best-documented of the three, lived a privileged but turbulent ...
... writing. He is less of a paraphraser and more obviously an exegete than Juvencus, and his presentation of Christ is moulded by a very clear theological agenda. Arator, the best-documented of the three, lived a privileged but turbulent ...
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... writers. (There is also a small one, giving a sketch of their later reception.) Juvencus has the most space; this reflects not only the size of his modern bibliography but the interest of particular issues such as his techniques of ...
... writers. (There is also a small one, giving a sketch of their later reception.) Juvencus has the most space; this reflects not only the size of his modern bibliography but the interest of particular issues such as his techniques of ...
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... writing became familiar and what had been a stylistic barrier gradually became less forbidding to curious or circumspect minds. In my Bibliography I have aimed to include almost all work written on these poets from angles relevant to ...
... writing became familiar and what had been a stylistic barrier gradually became less forbidding to curious or circumspect minds. In my Bibliography I have aimed to include almost all work written on these poets from angles relevant to ...
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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