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"In the past few years, it has been possible to notice parallel developments in the study of both Latin and Greek late antique poetry, two neighbouring and growing scholarly fields. Recently published studies reveal an increased focus on the contemporary context and, in relation to that, on the 'otherness' of late antique aesthetics, when compared with the poetics of earlier periods that classically trained scholars have been taught to admire. Long considered poetry of bad taste from a period of decline, late antique poetry fascinates classicists today mainly because of its otherness, its productive reception of the classical period, its innovations in terms of literary forms, and the creativity with which it responds to the 'seismic cultural changes' of late antique society"--
List of contents
Introduction. Walking the wire. Towards an inclusive approach to Latin and Greek late antique poetry Berenice Verhelst and Tine Scheijnen; Part I: 1. Rivaling song-contests and alternative Typhonomachies in Ovid and Nonnus: revisiting the issue of Latin influence on Greek poetry in Late Antiquity Katerina Carvounis and Sophia Papaioannou; 2. Greek and Roman epigrammatists in the later imperial period: Ausonius and Palladas in dialogue with the classical past Silvio Bär; 3. Allusion and referentiality in late antique epic Calum Maciver; 4. Speaking from the margins: paratexts in Greek and Latin poetry Aaron Pelttari; Part II: 5. The implosion of poetic genre in Late Antiquity Helen Kaufmann; 6. Common texts, (un)common aesthetics: the Greek and Latin cento in dialogue Brian Sowers; 7. A 'revival' of the 'epyllion' as a 'genre'? Genre awareness in short epic narrative from Late Antiquity Berenice Verhelst; Part III: 8. Saying the other. The poetics of personification in late antique epic Emma Greensmith; 9. Internal audiences in the New Testament epics of Juvencus and Nonnus Laura Miguélez-Cavero; 10. Colluthus and Dracontius: mythical traditions and innovations Marcelina Gilka; 11. Objects of the lusting gaze: viewing women as works of art in late antique poetry Sophie Schoess; 12. Metamorphosis and mutability in late antique epic Philip Hardie.
About the author
BERENICE VERHELST is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. She is the author of Direct Speech in Nonnus' Dionysiaca (2017) and the editor of the fourth Nonnus in Context volume (2022).TINE SCHEIJNEN is a Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Literary Studies (Greek section) at the Universiteit Gent. She is the author of Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica: A Study in Heroic Characterization and Heroism (2018).
