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Wandering Poets and Other Essays on Late Greek Literature and Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Wandering Poets and Other Essays on Late Greek Literature and Philosophy (Hardcover)
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This book presents a radically revised version of some of the most
important and innovative articles published by Alan Cameron in the
field of late antique Greek poetry and philosophy. Much new
material has been added to the account of the "Wandering Poets "
from early Byzantine Egypt, and earlier judgment on their paganism
is nuanced. The story of Cyrus of Panopolis and the empress Eudocia
takes into count important recent work on the poetry of Eudocia.
Several chapters discuss the date and identity of the influential
poet Nonnus. The longest chapter reviews the celebrated story of
the so-called closing of the Academy of Athens and the trip of its
seven remaining philosophers to the court of the Persian king
Chosroes, rejecting the fashionable current idea that they set up a
new school at Harran on the Persian border. An entirely new chapter
discusses a recently published papyrus containing poems of the
Alexandrian epigrammatist Palladas, rejecting the editor's claim
that Palladas wrote almost a century earlier than hitherto
believed. A concluding chapter discusses recent claims about
same-sex marriage in the Roman world.
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