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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.
The last full commentary on The Sack of Troy was published by
Wernicke in 1819 and even the most recent analyses of the poem tend
to see it as a quick halt in the evolution of epic poetry on its
way towards Nonnus of Panopolis. This book offers a complete
treatment of The Sack of Troy for its own sake. The introduction
gathers all the information we have about Triphiodorus and his
work, focusing on the reasons behind the election of topic, the
outline of the poem, different forms of allusion, the use of the
characterisation of individuals and groups to sustain plot
development, the nature of the narrator and the value of speeches.
This part is followed by a detailed analysis of Triphiodorus'
literary universe: his different forms of engagement not only with
Homer and other distant poets, but also with Imperial literature
and the contemporary cultural production. The line-by-line
commentary of the poem attends to the position of each episode in
the poem and in the tradition of the Trojan War and offers a
linguistic, formal and stylistic analysis. Each section or episode
is preceded by a comprehensive introduction, always bringing in all
the related bibliography but providing a fresh and reliable view on
Triphiodorus.
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