Per carmina laudes: Untersuchungen zur spätantiken Verspanegyrik von Claudian bis Coripp

Claudia Schindler

Published by De Gruyter 2009

Per carmina laudes

Untersuchungen zur spätantiken Verspanegyrik von Claudian bis Coripp

Per carmina laudes. Studies on Late Antique Verse Panegyric from Claudian to Corippus

Claudia Schindler

Volume 253 in the series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210583

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About this book

This monograph provides a review of the history of praise of rulers composed in hexameters (so-called panegyric epic) from the fourth to the sixth century A.D. Panegyric epic is a form of literature that only came to be of particular importance in Late Antiquity, although it drew upon and adapted a variety of Graeco-Roman literary traditions. Following a general description of the literary and historical-cultural preconditions for the development of Late Antique panegyric, this study presents its most important practitioners and their works, as well as detailing the development of the various traditions of Late Antique verse panegyric.

Author / Editor information

Claudia Schindler, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

Reviews

"Claudia Schindler's book provides a convincing inquiry about a genre characteristic of late antique literary production, that is the so-called `poetical panegyric'. After a methodical foreword, the author takes into account authors like Claudian, Merobaudes, Sidonius Apollinaris, Priscian, and, finally Corippus. Schindler outlines the salient features of such hybrid a form, by elucidating elements of novelty and motifs that can be linked to epic poems. This results in a powerful poetical effect that combines both the eulogy of contemporary events and the recalling of Rome's glorious past."
Chiara O. Tommasi Moreschini in: Plekos 12/2010

"This is a very rich and generally convincing study of the development of verse panegyric, and of its affinities to epic, indeed its dialogue with it, form the time of Theodosius I to that of Justin II."
Roger P. H. Green in: Gnomon 3/2010

"Schindlers philosophische Einzeluntersuchungen erbringen zugleich wichtige Ergebnisse zur Historisierung der spätantiken Verspanegyrik, die auch dem Althistoriker willkommene Hilfen zur Auswertung dieser Quellen sind."
Ulrich Lambrecht in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 4/2009

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
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Vorwort Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
I. Einleitung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. Von der Epideiktik zur Panegyrischen Epik. Voraussetzungen und Kontext spätantiker Verspanegyrik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
III. Claudius Claudianus. Der Archeget spätantiker Verspanegyrik im lateinischen Westen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
IV. Flavius Merobaudes, Sidonius Apollinaris, Priscianus: Hexametrische Panegyrik in der Nachfolge Claudians Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
V. Flavius Cresconius Corippus. Spätantike Verspanegyrik als heroische Großepik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
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Language: German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Main content: 344
Keywords: Intertextuality; Latin Verse; Literary Tradition; Panegyric; Late Antiquity

eBook

Published: March 26, 2009
ISBN: 9783110210583

Hardcover

Published: March 18, 2009
ISBN: 9783110201277