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The Poetics Of Late Latin Literature
. Ed(S): Elsner, Jas; Hernandez Lobato, Jesus
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Hardback. Editor(s): Elsner, Jas; Hernandez Lobato, Jesus. Series: Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity. Num Pages: 544 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 162 x 43. Weight in Grams: 864.
The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant antiquity of Greece nor in the golden age of a Roman empire that spanned the Mediterranean, but more fundamentally in the original and problematic fusion of Greco-Roman culture with a new and unexpected foreign element-the arrival of Christianity as an exclusive state religion. For a host of reasons, traditionalist scholarship has failed ... Read more
The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant antiquity of Greece nor in the golden age of a Roman empire that spanned the Mediterranean, but more fundamentally in the original and problematic fusion of Greco-Roman culture with a new and unexpected foreign element-the arrival of Christianity as an exclusive state religion. For a host of reasons, traditionalist scholarship has failed ... Read more
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Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
544
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Series
Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199355631
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V9780199355631
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About . Ed(S): Elsner, Jas; Hernandez Lobato, Jesus
Jaś Elsner is Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Visiting Professor of Art and Religion at the University of Chicago and Leverhulme Senior Research Keeper in the Empires of Faith project at the British Museum. Jesús Hernández Lobato is a Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Salamanca, Spain.
Reviews for The Poetics Of Late Latin Literature
This carefully collected and edited volume is a precious resource for the investigation into both poetics and generic innovation in late Latin literature.
Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, L'Antiquité Classique
Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, L'Antiquité Classique