Poems in Context: Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD (Sozomena Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts - Vol. 2)

Frontmatter
Contents
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. The so-called school of Nonnus in the literary context of Panopolis (3rd–6th c. AD)
	1. Poetry in the Greek East during the 3rd to the 6th c. AD
	2. Only poetry?
		A Family of Priests and Men of Letters
		A Family of a Perfect Pagan Pedigree
		Cyrus of Panopolis
		Olympiodorus of Thebes
		Serenus of Antinoopolis
		Zosimus the Alchemist
	3. Poetry in the Thebaid
		3.1. Authors whose work has been transmitted in manuscripts
			Triphiodorus
			Nonnus
			Musaeus
			Colluthus
			Cyrus of Panopolis
			Christodorus of Coptus
		3.2. Works known only through inscriptions, papyri, parchment and tablets
		3.3. Authors known only through references
			3.3.1. Photius' codex
			3.3.2. Other sources
	4. Who were they?
	5. Conclusions
Chapter 2. Common stylistic features
	1. Metrics
	2. Adjectives: how and when
	3. Vocabulary
		Verse as provocation
		Poems full of noise
		Poems full of smell, taste, touch
		Poems interested in the sight
		Balance between lexical exuberance and repetition
		Scientifico-technical vocabulary
		Homer's inheritance
	4. Poetics / stylistics
		All-inclusive Poetry
	5. Antecedents to late antique poetics
		Ethopoea of Quintus Sulpicius Maximus
		Babrius
		Theosophia Tubingensis
	6. Conclusions
Chapter 3. The role of culture and education in Panopolis (3rd–6th c. AD)
	1. Egypt in the 3rd to the 6th c. AD
	2. Panopolis (3rd-6th c.)
	3. Culture and education
		3.1. Educational infrastructure
			Teachers
			Literary texts in use
		3.2. Reconstruction of school contents in Panopolis
			Introductory courses
			Grammar
			Literature
			Latin
			Progymnasmata and Rhetoric
		3.3. Training in other fields
			Mathematics
			Engineering and Mechanics
			Magic, Astronomy, Astrology
			Alchemy
			Natural Sciences
			Music
			Medicine
			Legal Training
			Philosophy
		3.4. Training for the élite
			Gymnasium
			The games of Perseus
	4. Conclusions
Chapter 4. Influence of school-practice on poetry: The progymnasmata
	1. School influence on poetic composition: The progymnasmata
	2. Narrative
		2.1. The theory of narrative
		2.2. Overall presence of narrative in epic poems
		2.3. Paradoxographical narrative
		2.4. Mythical narrative
	3. Ekphrasis
		3.1. Theory on description
		3.2. The overall presence of the ekphrasis
		3.3. Self-standing descriptions
		3.4. The heritage of Achilles' shield
		3.5. Battle Descriptions
	4. Paraphrase
		4.1. Theory of the paraphrase
		4.2. Paraphrase, a learned activity
		4.3. Balance between mimesis and paraphrase
		4.4. The Paraphrase of the Gospel of John
	5. Ethopoea
		5.1. Theory of the ethopoea
		5.2. Ethopoeae on papyrus
		5.3. Triphiodorus and the ethopoea
		5.4. The Codex Visionum
		5.5. Presence of the ethopoea in the Dionysiaca
		5.6. Ethopoeae in the Palatine Anthology
	6. Encomium
		6.1. Theory of the encomium
		6.2. Daily use of encomium
			6.2.1. Institutional poetry
			6.2.2. Patria
			6.2.3. Epithalamia
		6.3. Presence of the encomium in short poems
		6.4. The Dionysiaca as an encomiastic poem
	7. Conclusions
Chapter 5. Conclusions
Appendix: Checklist of Inscriptions, Papyri, Parchment and Tablets
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	No.34
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	No.48
	No.56
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