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