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Poems in Context - Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD (Hardcover)
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Poems in Context - Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD (Hardcover)
Series: Sozomena
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Examining carefully the Egyptian epic hexameter production from the
3rd to the 6th centuries AD, especially that of the southern region
(Thebaid), this study provides an image of three centuries in the
history of the Graeco-Egyptian literature, in which authors and
poetry are related directly to the social-economic, cultural and
literary contexts from which they come. The training they could get
and the books and authors they came in touch with explain that we
know so many names and works, written in a language and metrics
that enjoyed the greatest esteem, being considered proofs of the
highest culture. Laura Miguelez Cavero demonstrates that the
traditional image of a "school of Nonnos" is not justified -
rather, Triphiodorus, Nonnus, Musaeus, Colluthus, Cyrus of
Panopolis and Christodorus of Coptos are just the tip of a literary
iceberg we know only to some extent through the texts that papyri
offer us.
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