Poems in context
Subtitle: Greek poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD
By: Laura Miguélez Cavero
Series: Sozomena -- v. 2
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9783110202731
Subjects: Greek poetry; History and criticism
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Mode of access: Internet.