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The Shadow of Creusa - Negotiating Fictionality in Late Antique Latin Literature (Paperback, Digital original) Loot Price: R954
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The Shadow of Creusa - Negotiating Fictionality in Late Antique Latin Literature (Paperback, Digital original): Anders Cullhed

The Shadow of Creusa - Negotiating Fictionality in Late Antique Latin Literature (Paperback, Digital original)

Anders Cullhed; Translated by Michael Knight

Series: Beitrage zur Altertumskunde

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Anders Cullhed's study The Shadow of Creusa explores the early Christian confrontation with pagan culture as a remote anticipation of many later clashes between religious orthodoxy and literary fictionality. After a careful survey of Saint Augustine's critical attitudes to ancient myth and poetry, summarized as a long drawn-out farewell, Cullhed examines other Late Antique dismissals as well as appropriations of the classical heritage. Macrobius, Martianus Capella and Boethius figure among the Late Antique intellectuals who attempted to save or even restore the old mythology by means of allegorical representation. On the other hand, pious poets such as Paulinus of Nola and Bible epic writers such as Iuvencus or Avitus of Vienne turned against pagan lies, and the mighty arch-bishop of Milan, Saint Ambrose, played off unconditional Christian truth against the last Roman strongholds of cultural pluralism. Thus, The Shadow of Creusa elucidates a cultural conflict which was to leave traces all through the Middle Ages and reach down to our present day.

General

Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of origin: Germany
Series: Beitrage zur Altertumskunde
Release date: July 2017
First published: 2015
Authors: Anders Cullhed
Translators: Michael Knight
Dimensions: 230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 724
Edition: Digital original
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-055924-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > General
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
Books > Christianity
LSN: 3-11-055924-2
Barcode: 9783110559248

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