ENGLISH

Studies in Colluthus' "Abduction of Helen"

By Cosetta Cadau

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2015
ISBN
9004279504, 9789004279506
ISSN
0169-8958
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1782942 bytes)
Series
Mnemosyne Supplements 380
Pages
viii+324\333
Topic
Literature
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-02-20 14:11:22
Medieval Movements Periods History Criticism Liter

Description

"This first monograph in English on Colluthus situates this late antique author within his cultural context and offers a new appraisal of his hexameter poem The Abduction of Helen, the end-point of the pagan Greek epic tradition, which was composed in the Christianised Egyptian Thebaid. The book evaluates the poem's connections with long-established and contemporary literary and artistic genres and with Neoplatonic philosophy, and analyzes the poet's re-negotiation of traditional material to suit the expectations of a late fifth-century AD audience. It explores Colluthus' interpretation of the contemporary fascination with visuality, identifies new connections between Colluthus and Claudian, and shows how the author's engagement with the poetry of Nonnusgoes much further than previously shown"

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