Luke and Vergil
Subtitle: imitations of classical Greek literature
By: Dennis R. MacDonald
Series: New Testament and Greek Literature -- volume 2
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD; Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781442230545; 9781442230552
Subjects: Bible; Relation to the New Testament; Lukasevangelium; Criticism, interpretation; Influence; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Literatur; Aeneis (Virgil); Greek literature; Griechisch; Interdisziplinarität; Extra-canonical parallels
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Passages in Luke-Acts with proposed Imitations -- -- Part One.; title: Euripides' Bachae and Luke-Acts:; title: Introduction to Part One;; title: Bacchae 1-166. Divine Madness;; title: Excursus 1. Homeric Hymn to Apollo;; title: Bacchae 167-214. The God's Male Devotees ;; title: Bacchae 215-431. Theomachos;; title: Bacchae 432-518. Arrest, Interrogation, and Prison Break;; title: Bacchae 519-801. Prayer, Earthquake, and Prison Break;; title: Excursus 2: Pindar Pythian Ode 4;; title: Bacchae 802-1392. Punishing the Theomachos;; title: Conclusion to Part One --; title: Part Two.; title: Socrates in Platoi and Xenophon:; title: Introduction to Part Two;; title: Plato Republic 416D-417A. Socrates' Utopia;; title: Plato Republic 462C-464C. Socrates' Utopia, Again;; title: Plato Apology 17A-24C. Socrates' Crimes and Accusers;; title: Xenophon Apology and Memorabilia. Socrates' Innocence;; title: Plato Apology 24D-42A and Crito. Socrates' Defense;; title: Excursus 3: Aeschylus Seven against Thebes;; title: Plato Phaedo. Socrates' Death; Conclusion to Part Two;; title: Excursus 4: From the Dionysian to the Apollonian in Luke-Acts -- -- Part Three.; title: Vergil's Odyssey-Iliad and Luke-Acts:; title: Introduction to Part Three;; title: Aeneid 1.1-147. Juno's Rage and Aeolus's Winds (Od. 5.268-473 and 10.1-75);; title: Aeneid 1.157-222. Trojans Survive the Shipwreck (Od. 5.474-493 and 6.177-245);; title: Aeneid 1.227-259. Jupiter's Promise to Venus (IL 20.297-308);; title: Excursus 5. The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite;; title: Aeneid 1.257-296. Aeneas's Coming Rule and Ascension (11. 20.203-241);; title: Aeneid 1.305-497. Aeneas's Untriumphal Entry into Carthage (Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and Od. 6.251-7.135);; title: Aeneid 1.588-613. Aeneas's Transfiguration (Od. 16.172-303);; title: Aeneid 2.199-227. Portent of Serpents (Il. 2.301-335);-; title: Aeneid 2.647-794. Aeneas's Farewell to Creusa (Il. 6.369-502);; title: Aeneid 3.1-279 and Often. Aeneas's We-Voyages (Od. 9.37-42);; title: Aeneid 3.294-380. Andromache Mourns Hector (Il. 6.369-502);; title: Aeneid 3.374-462. Helenus's Prophecy That Aeneas Must Go to Rome (Od. 12.37-110);; title: Aeneid 3.569-691. Polyphemus (Od. 9.105-542);; title: Aeneid 4.238-594. Aeneas's Escape from Dido (Il. 24.677-718);; title: Aeneid 5.84-103. Portent of the Serpent (Il. 2.301-335);; title: Aeneid 5.835-871. Death of Palinurus (Od. 10.467-574);; title: Aeneid 6.156-371. Ghosts of Misenus and Palinurus (Od. 10.551-574);; title: Aeneid 6.495-512. Murder of Deiphobos (Od. 11.387-411);; title: Aeneid 6.603-611. Tantalus's Torments (Od. 11.582-592);; title: Aeneid 6.679-901. The Ghost of Anchises (Od. 11.90-151);; title: Aeneid 7.10-20. Circe (Od. 10.203-399);; title: Aeneid 7.385-405. Amata's Madness (Bacchae);; title: Aeneid 7.408-432. Allecto and Turnus's Malevolent Dream (Il. 2.1-33);; title: Aeneid 8.90-305. Feast of Evander (Od. 3.1-67 and 4.141-145);; title: Aeneid 9.224-449. Trojan Council (Il. 9.9-188);; title: Aeneid 9.473-502. Mourning of Euryalus's Mother (Il. 22.405-515);; title: Aeneid 9.656-661. Apollo Flies from Ascanius (Od. 1.319-323);; title: Aeneid 10.270-275. Aeneas's Shining Helmet (Il. 18.205-206);; title: Aeneid 11.34-38 and 142-147. Lamentations for Fallen Pallas (Il. 24.709-712);; title: Aeneid 12.54-63. Amata Weeps for Turnus Not to Fight Aeneas (Il. 22.79-92);; title: Aeneid 12.385-429. Aeneas's Hemorrhaging Wound (Il. 16.433-683);; title: Aeneid 12.430-443. Aeneas's Prayer for Ascanius (Il. 6.466-481);; title: Aeneid 12.725-952. Death of Turnus (Il. 22.289-363);; title: Excursus 6. The Ascensions of Aeneas, Romulus, and Jesus --; title: Conclusion to Part Three: Luke's Aeneid.