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  1. Ovid's tragic heroines
    gender abjection and generic code-switching
    Author: Westerhold, Jessica A.
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    'Ovid's Tragic Heroines' expands our understanding of Ovid's incorporation of Greek generic codes and the tragic heroines, Phaedra and Medea, while offering a new perspective on the Roman poet's persistent interest in these two characters and their... more

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    'Ovid's Tragic Heroines' expands our understanding of Ovid's incorporation of Greek generic codes and the tragic heroines, Phaedra and Medea, while offering a new perspective on the Roman poet's persistent interest in these two characters and their paradigms. Ovid presents these two Attic tragic heroines as symbols of different passions that are defined by the specific combination of their gender and generic provenance. Their failure to be understood and their subsequent punishment are constructed as the result of their female 'nature,' and are generically marked as 'tragic.' Ovid's masculine poetic voice, by contrast, is given free rein to oscillate and play with poetic possibilities. Jessica A. Westerhold focuses on select passages from the poems 'Ars Amatoria', 'Heroides', and 'Metamorphoses'.

     
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  2. Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius
    Author: Omissi, Adrastos
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius examines one of the most important literatures of the late Roman period – speeches of praise addressed to the reigning emperor – and the panegyrical culture of the late Roman world more generally. Unlike... more

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    Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius examines one of the most important literatures of the late Roman period – speeches of praise addressed to the reigning emperor – and the panegyrical culture of the late Roman world more generally. Unlike much previous work on this topic, Imperial Panegyric takes a consciously comparative approach, especially between eastern and western, Greek and Latin texts.Each contributor draws upon evidence taken from multiple authors or from different kinds of panegyric in order to explore both the communal and the particular in this most idiosyncratic of media. The volume investigates to what extent there was a unified concept of imperial panegyric, and how local circumstances shaped individual speeches. It also considers the ways in which traditional forms of praise-giving respond to fourth-century phenomena such as the expansion of Christianity, collegial rulership, and the decline of Rome as the political centre of the empire. Its contributors

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Ross, Alan J
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781800346031
    RVK Categories: NH 8420 ; NH 8500
    Series: Translated Texts for Historians ; 3
    Subjects: Ancient, classical & medieval texts; Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p.)
  3. Arator: Historia Apostolica
    Author: Hillier, Richard J.
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Arator’s Historia Apostolica, published with papal approval and to great acclaim in 544, is an enthralling epic poem which retells the story of the Acts of Apostles, following clearly in the stylistic footsteps of Vergil and Lucan. On the other hand,... more

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    Arator’s Historia Apostolica, published with papal approval and to great acclaim in 544, is an enthralling epic poem which retells the story of the Acts of Apostles, following clearly in the stylistic footsteps of Vergil and Lucan. On the other hand, it is also a detailed commentary on what Arator perceived to be the hidden meaning of the biblical text, divined and revealed through the technique of allegorical interpretation and drawing upon the exegesis of Origen, Ambrose, Augustine, and others. Narrative and commentary alternate throughout the work to enthralling effect, as the apostles Peter and Paul embark on their separate missionary adventures, eventually to be reunited in martyrdom in Nero’s Rome. The translation is preceded by an introduction which begins with a re-evaluation of the sources which detail Arator’s life, in particular taking a fresh look at his relationship with his mentor Ennodius. There follow an examination of the poet’s aims, methods and inspirations and a

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781802071078
    Series: Translated Texts for Historians ; 73
    Subjects: Ancient, classical & medieval texts; History of religion
    Other subjects: Arator Diaconus (500-550): De actibus apostolorum
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (370 p.)