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Damasus of Rome - The Epigraphic Poetry (Hardcover)
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Damasus of Rome - The Epigraphic Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Texts
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Damasus of Rome makes available in English the epigraphic poetry of
Damasus, bishop of Rome from 366 to 384. The translations are
accompanied by the Latin text as well as by commentary on the
literary, topographic, and archaeological features of Damasus'
inscribed epigrams. Antonio Ferrua published the last critical
edition of Damasus' poetry in 1942. Since Ferrua's ground-breaking
edition, however, much has changed. Recent scholarship has
challenged the Damasan authorship of several epigrams, other pieces
have been reinstated as Damasan, and archaeology has added
fragments that were not known in 1942. Moreover in recent years new
ways of appreciating Late Latin poetry have revolutionized thinking
about many poets contemporary with Damasus. Damasus of Rome,
therefore, not only offers new translations but updates the corpus
and criticism of Damasus' poetry. A full introduction situates
Damasus in his times by considering his troubled election and the
issues that dominated Rome and his papacy. The introduction also
sets the poems within the broader sweep of the history of
epigraphic poetry at Rome and relates them both to the development
of the Christian catacombs and to the emergence of the cults of the
Roman saints. Modern scholarship readily acknowledges that the
years of Damasus' episcopacy were pivotal ones in the
transformation of Rome into a late antique Christian city. His
poetry, much of it inscribed at the suburban tombs of the Roman
saints and martyrs, played an incalculable but significant role in
the redefinition of both Roman and Christian identity in this
remarkable age. Damasus of Rome now makes that poetry more readily
available to scholars and students alike.
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