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Poems in context : Greek poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008.
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| Series: | Sozomena (Berlin, Germany) ;
v. 2. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The so-called school of Nonnus in the literary context of Panopolis (3rd-6th c. AD). Poetry in the Greek East during the 3rd to the 6th c. AD ; Only poetry? ; Poetry in the Thebaid ; Who were they?
- Common stylistic features. Metrics ; Adjectives : how and when ; Vocabulary ; Poetics/stylistics ; Antecedents to late antique poetics
- The role of culture and education in Panopolis (3rd-6th c. AD). Egypt in the 3rd to the 6th c. AD ; Panopolis (3rd-6th c.) ; Culture and education
- Influence of school-practice on poetry : the progymnasmata. School influence on poetic composition : the progymnasmata ; Narrative ; Ekphrasis ; Paraphrase ; Ethopoea ; Ecomium.