Dracontius’ Medea and the Classical Tradition: Divine Influence and Human Action

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Abbreviations IX
5. Prelude
6. Generic Debates and Late Antique Christian Poetry 1
7. Part I: Fugue in Minor: Epigram, Elegy, Epyllion
8. Metrical Inscriptions in Late Antiquity: What Difference Did Christianity Make? 39
9. Writing Classicizing Epigrams in Sixth-Century Constantinople: The Funerary Poems of Julian the Egyptian 59
10. The Poet and the Light: Modulation and Transposition of a Prudentian Ekphrasis in Two Poems by Sidonius Apollinaris 75
11. Poetological Name-Dropping: Explicit References to Poets and Genres in Gregory Nazianzen’s Poems 93
12. The Significance of Meter in the Biblical Poems of Gregory Nazianzen (carmina I.1.12–27) 109
13. Some Οbservations on the Genre of Dracontius’ Satisfactio 125
14. Do Dracontius’ Epyllia Have a Christian Apologetic Agenda? 139
15. Dracontius’ Medea and the Classical Tradition: Divine Influence and Human Action 151
16. The Late Roman Alcestis and the Applicability of Generic Labels to Two Short Narrative Poems 169
17. Part II: Fugue in Major: Epic
18. The ‘Profanity’ of Jesus’ Storm-calming Miracle (Juvencus 2.25–42) and the Flaws of Kontrastimitation 191
19. Writing a Homeric-Christian Poem: The Case of Eudocia Augusta’s Saint Cyprian 209
20. Did Nonnus Really Want to Write a ‘Gospel Epic’? The Ambiguous Genre of the Paraphrase of the Gospel According to John 225
21. Nonnus’ Paraphrase of the Gospel According to John as Didactic Epic 249
22. Davidic Didactic Hexameters: The Generic Stance of the Metaphrasis Psalmorum 265
23. The Lament of the Virgin in the I Homeric Centos: An Early Threnos 275
24. George Pisides’ Expeditio Persica and Discourses on Warfare in Late Antiquity 293
25. List of Contributors 311
26. Index Auctorum Locorumque 313
27. Thematic Index 329