The little-researched poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus reflects a remarkable interweaving of Judeo-Christian thought and the Greek-Pagan poetic tradition. This book includes a bilingual edition and analysis of the imagery in the double-poem 'On Silence During Lent' (Carm. II,1,34A…
The little-researched poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus reflects a remarkable interweaving of Judeo-Christian thought and the Greek-Pagan poetic tradition. This book includes a bilingual edition and analysis of the imagery in the double-poem 'On Silence During Lent' (Carm. II,1,34A…
Unlike most of the biblical poetry of late antiquity, the Alethia of Claudius Marius Victorius has major links to didactic poetry as well as the pagan epic, especially to the works of Lucretius. This is the first systematic study to examine the relationship between epic and dida…