Genres Rediscovered : Studies in Latin Miniature Epic, Love Elegy, and Epigram of the Romano-Barbaric Age.

By: Wasyl, Anna MariaMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Kraków : Jagiellonian University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (291 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9788323380689Subject(s): Dracontius, Blossius Aemilius, -- 5th cent | Latin literature -- History and criticism | Maximianus, -- 6th centGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Genres Rediscovered : Studies in Latin Miniature Epic, Love Elegy, and Epigram of the Romano-Barbaric AgeDDC classification: 233.70882842 | 233/.70882842 LOC classification: PA6003 -- .W37 2011ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART ONE - The Miniature Epic in Vandal Africaand the Heritage of a 'Non-Genre' -- I. 1. Defining the (Latin) epyllion:some recapitulations -- I. 2. La narrazione commentata: the narrator's presencein Dracontius's epyllia -- I. 2. 1. HYLAS -- I. 2. 2. DE RAPTU HELENAE -- I. 2. 3. MEDEA -- I. 2. 4. ORESTIS TRAGOEDIA -- I. 3. Dracontius and the poetics of 'non-Homeric' epic -- I. 3. 1. HYLAS -- I. 3. 2. DE RAPTU HELENAE -- I. 3. 3. MEDEA -- I. 3. 4. ORESTIS TRAGOEDIA -- I. 4. 'Mixing of genres' in Dracontius's epyllia -- I. 4. 1. HYLAS -- I. 4. 2. DE RAPTU HELENAE -- I. 4. 3. MEDEA -- I. 4. 4. ORESTIS TRAGOEDIA -- I. 5. Dracontius's epyllia: final remarks -- I. 6. The Aegritudo Perdicae and the epyllion tradition -- PART TWO - The Elegy without Love: Maximianusand His Opus -- II. 1. The supposed liber elegiarum or how to makeMaximianus readable as an elegiac poet? -- II. 2. The polyphony of lament: themes and forms in 'Elegy' 1 -- II. 3. Love memories in episodes: 'Elegies' 2-5 -- II. 3. 1. 'ELEGY' 2: LYCORIS -- II. 3. 2. 'ELEGY' 3: AQUILINA -- II. 3. 3. 'ELEGY' 4: CANDIDA -- II. 3. 4. 'ELEGY' 5: GRAIA PUELLA -- II. 3. 5. AND YET NON OMNIS MORIAR: THE CODA (OR 'ELEGY' 6) -- II. 4. Maximianus's elegy: final remarks -- PART THREE - The Roman Epigramin the Romano-Barbaric World -- III. 1. Martial and the definition of the Roman epigram -- III. 2. "The Martial of the Vandals:" Luxorius, the followerand the innovator -- III. 2. 1. THE DULL EPIGRAMMATIST AND HIS NOT TOO LEARNED PUBLIC:LUXORIUS'S SELF-PRESENTATION -- III. 2. 2. THE LIBER EPIGRAMMATON AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS -- III. 2. 3. THE POEMS: AN OVERVIEW -- III. 2. 3. 1. Scoptic epigrams -- II. 2. 3. 2. Epideictic and ecphrastic epigrams -- III. 2. 3. 3. Laudationes and epitaphia -- III. 2. 4. LUXORIUS'S EPIGRAMS: FINAL REMARKS.
III. 3. Luxorius and his contemporary epigrammatic writing -- III. 3. 1. UNIUS POETAE SYLLOGE -- III. 3. 1. 1. The sylloge and its characteristics -- III. 3. 1. 2. The poems: an overview -- III. 3. 2. ENNODIUS AND HIS EPIGRAMS -- III. 3. 2. 1. Jacques Sirmond's edition or was Ennodius a self-conscious epigrammatist? -- III. 3. 2. 2. Notes on selected poems -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index of Ancient and Medieval Authors and Works.
Summary: A reader of the epyllion by Dracontius, the elegy by Maximianus, and the epigram by Luxorius should not expect that these works - and these new embodiments of the 'old' genres - will be wholly identical with their 'archetypes'. Were it so, it would mean that we read but second-rate versifiers, indeed. … We may expect rather that thanks to the reading of Dracontius's epyllion, Maximianus's elegy, and Luxorius's epigram our understanding of these very genres may become fuller and deeper than if it was narrowed only to the study of the 'classical phase' of the Roman literature.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART ONE - The Miniature Epic in Vandal Africaand the Heritage of a 'Non-Genre' -- I. 1. Defining the (Latin) epyllion:some recapitulations -- I. 2. La narrazione commentata: the narrator's presencein Dracontius's epyllia -- I. 2. 1. HYLAS -- I. 2. 2. DE RAPTU HELENAE -- I. 2. 3. MEDEA -- I. 2. 4. ORESTIS TRAGOEDIA -- I. 3. Dracontius and the poetics of 'non-Homeric' epic -- I. 3. 1. HYLAS -- I. 3. 2. DE RAPTU HELENAE -- I. 3. 3. MEDEA -- I. 3. 4. ORESTIS TRAGOEDIA -- I. 4. 'Mixing of genres' in Dracontius's epyllia -- I. 4. 1. HYLAS -- I. 4. 2. DE RAPTU HELENAE -- I. 4. 3. MEDEA -- I. 4. 4. ORESTIS TRAGOEDIA -- I. 5. Dracontius's epyllia: final remarks -- I. 6. The Aegritudo Perdicae and the epyllion tradition -- PART TWO - The Elegy without Love: Maximianusand His Opus -- II. 1. The supposed liber elegiarum or how to makeMaximianus readable as an elegiac poet? -- II. 2. The polyphony of lament: themes and forms in 'Elegy' 1 -- II. 3. Love memories in episodes: 'Elegies' 2-5 -- II. 3. 1. 'ELEGY' 2: LYCORIS -- II. 3. 2. 'ELEGY' 3: AQUILINA -- II. 3. 3. 'ELEGY' 4: CANDIDA -- II. 3. 4. 'ELEGY' 5: GRAIA PUELLA -- II. 3. 5. AND YET NON OMNIS MORIAR: THE CODA (OR 'ELEGY' 6) -- II. 4. Maximianus's elegy: final remarks -- PART THREE - The Roman Epigramin the Romano-Barbaric World -- III. 1. Martial and the definition of the Roman epigram -- III. 2. "The Martial of the Vandals:" Luxorius, the followerand the innovator -- III. 2. 1. THE DULL EPIGRAMMATIST AND HIS NOT TOO LEARNED PUBLIC:LUXORIUS'S SELF-PRESENTATION -- III. 2. 2. THE LIBER EPIGRAMMATON AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS -- III. 2. 3. THE POEMS: AN OVERVIEW -- III. 2. 3. 1. Scoptic epigrams -- II. 2. 3. 2. Epideictic and ecphrastic epigrams -- III. 2. 3. 3. Laudationes and epitaphia -- III. 2. 4. LUXORIUS'S EPIGRAMS: FINAL REMARKS.

III. 3. Luxorius and his contemporary epigrammatic writing -- III. 3. 1. UNIUS POETAE SYLLOGE -- III. 3. 1. 1. The sylloge and its characteristics -- III. 3. 1. 2. The poems: an overview -- III. 3. 2. ENNODIUS AND HIS EPIGRAMS -- III. 3. 2. 1. Jacques Sirmond's edition or was Ennodius a self-conscious epigrammatist? -- III. 3. 2. 2. Notes on selected poems -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index of Ancient and Medieval Authors and Works.

A reader of the epyllion by Dracontius, the elegy by Maximianus, and the epigram by Luxorius should not expect that these works - and these new embodiments of the 'old' genres - will be wholly identical with their 'archetypes'. Were it so, it would mean that we read but second-rate versifiers, indeed. … We may expect rather that thanks to the reading of Dracontius's epyllion, Maximianus's elegy, and Luxorius's epigram our understanding of these very genres may become fuller and deeper than if it was narrowed only to the study of the 'classical phase' of the Roman literature.

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