|
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
|
Buy Now
The Paradigm of Simias - Essays on Poetic Eccentricity (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R3,703
Discovery Miles 37 030
|
|
|
The Paradigm of Simias - Essays on Poetic Eccentricity (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
This book's concern is with notoriously obscure ancient
poets-riddlers, whom it argues to have been an essential, albeit
necessarily marginal, element of the literary landscape of
Antiquity, which, in addition, exerted subtle yet lasting influence
on European culture. The three first essays in this book trace a
direct line of influence between the early Hellenistic scholar-poet
Simias of Rhodes, the late Republican Roman experimentalist Laevius
and Constantine the Great's virtuoso panegyrist Optatian Porfyry,
whereas the fourth essay discusses the preservation and
transformation of the model invented by Simias in Byzantium. The
Appendix reflects on the triumph of this intellectual paradigm in
Neo-Latin Jesuit education by investigating the case of a
peripheral yet highly influential Central European college at the
turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book is at
once a contribution to the scholarship on the reception of
Hellenistic poetry and to the study of ancient 'technopaegnia'
(i.e. playful poetry) and their cultural influence in Antiquity,
Byzantium and post-mediaeval Europe.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
