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Latin Poetry
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Scott McGill
Published: 21 November 2012
...This article discusses the Latin poetry of Late Antiquity. It focuses on the works of several poets including Claudius Claudianus, Rutilius Namatianus, Ausonius, Sidonius Apollinaris, Dracontius, Luxurius, and Flavius Cresconius Corippus. Works Cited Amherdt, D., ed., trans., and notes. 2004...
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To Speak or Not to Speak: The Birth of a “Poetics of Silence” in Late Antique Literature
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Jesús Hernández Lobato
Published: 19 January 2017
... antique culture; it underlies Augustine’s semiotics, Evagrius Ponticus’s hesychasm, Gregory of Nyssa’s apophaticism and Pseudo-Dionysius’s negative mysticism. The metaphor of silence is tackled by several authors: Sidonius Apollinaris, Fulgentius, Augustine, Ausonius, Rutilius Namatianus...
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Platonizing Latin: Apuleius’s Phaedo
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Richard Fletcher
Published: 19 November 2015
... Apuleius aligns himself with the Roman philosophical tradition while also blazing his own trail: if Cicero Latinizes Plato’s Greek, the chapter’s Apuleius engages in the Platonization of the Latin language. Apuleius Phaedo translated by Apuleius Plato Sidonius Apollinaris Calcidius’ Timaeus Cicero...
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Educational Communities
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Jan R. Stenger
Published: 11 February 2022
... culture in fifth-century Gaul (Sidonius Apollinaris). These discourses revolved around the influence exerted by teaching, literary practices, and reading habits on the life and cohesion of cultural and religious groups. Educational thinking thus became an exercise in identity-making. Drawing...
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The Fall of Rome and the Ascent of Rogationtide
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Nathan J. Ristuccia
Published: 08 March 2018
... Sidonius Apollinaris and Avitus of Vienne—wrote not as impartial observers but as advocates promulgating different versions of Rogationtide against competitors. Early sources supply little reliable evidence about Mamertus, but a great deal about how later bishops and townsmen struggled to preserve Gallo...
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The Letter Collection of Sidonius Apollinaris
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Sigrid Mratschek
Published: 06 December 2016
... of Tours Ruricius of Limoges Sigrid Mratschek Sidonius Apollinaris Gaul Trajan Pliny Symmachus C. Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius (ca. 430–485) was a man of diverse talents whose career knew peaks and troughs. A member of the highest Gallo-Roman aristocracy, government official under three Roman...
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The Poet and the Virgin: Avitus of Vienne’s De Consolatoria Castitatis Laude
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David Ungvary
Published: 17 July 2024
...0 17 07 2024 © Oxford University Press 2024 2024 Oxford University Press This chapter identifies and explains an ascetic poetics within the writings of Avitus of Vienne, a nephew of Sidonius Apollinaris. Interpretation focuses on Avitus’s poem, De consolatoria castitatis laude ...
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Polymetry in Late Latin Poems: Some Observations on Its Meaning and Functions
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Franca Ela consolino
Published: 19 January 2017
... interpretation intertextuality Cyprianus Gallus heptateuchos Ennodius epigrammata Bobiensia Hilary of Arles AL 487 de obitu Baebiani Paulinus of Nola poema coniugis ad uxorem Sidonius Apollinaris Poetae Novelli Horace mixing of languages Gratian Ausonius and Jesus Christ Muses Naevius...
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Published: 17 July 2024
...0 17 07 2024 © Oxford University Press 2024 2024 Oxford University Press This chapter offers an account of Sidonius Apollinaris’s renunciation of verse composition upon his entry into the episcopacy in ca. 470. It explores why he continued to write verse during his episcopal tenure and what...
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Athenian political rhetoric
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Sviatoslav Dmitriev
Published: 25 March 2021
... the Olympic games Prohaeresius Thebes the Thebans Chron Pasch Dindorf 1 1832 595BC Dio Chr and the corpus Chrysostomeum Favor Amato 2005–2010 Lyc Conomis 1970 Themist Schenkl 1965–1974 Eunapius tyranny tongue Phocion Demosthenes Libanius Tisamenus Philostratus Sidonius Apollinaris Mark Antony...
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