ISBN: 9781472519665

Traditional and still prevalent accounts of late antique literature draw a clear distinction between 'pagan' and 'Christian' forms of poetry: whereas Christian poetry is taken seriously i… Meer...

Traditional and still prevalent accounts of late antique literature draw a clear distinction between 'pagan' and 'Christian' forms of poetry: whereas Christian poetry is taken seriously in terms its contribution to culture and society at large, so-called pagan or secular poetry is largely ignored, as though it has no meaningful part to play within the late antique world. The Myth of Paganism sets out to deconstruct this view of two contrasting poetic traditions and proposes in its place a new integrated model for the understanding of late antique poetry. As the book argues, the poet of Christ and the poet of the Muses were drawn together into an active, often provocative, dialogue about the relationship between Christianity and the Classical tradition and, ultimately, about the meaning of late antiquity itself. An analysis of the poetry of Nonnus of Panopolis, author of both a 'pagan' epic about Dionysus and a Christian translation of St John's Gospel, helps to illustrate this complex dialectic between pagan and Christian voices.; EPUB; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studi, HarperCollins Publishers<

ISBN: 9781472519665

1st Edition, by Robert Shorrock, PRINT ISBN: 9780715636688 E-TEXT ISBN: 9781472519665 Bloomsbury UK eBook Other pricing structure might be available at vitalsource.com., Bloomsbury Academic

2013, ISBN: 9781472519665

Nonnus, Dionysus and the World of Late Antiquity, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing], Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013

2013, ISBN: 9781472519665

Nonnus, Dionysus and the World of Late Antiquity, eBook Download (EPUB), eBooks, [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing]