Prudentius On The Martyrs

Author : Anne-Marie Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prudentius on the Martyrs written by Anne-Marie Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Latin poet Prudentius, considered one of the greatest Christian poets of the late Antique period. Palmer examines the poet's life and society, investigates the purpose of the poems--especially the Peristephanon--and their intended audience, and discusses them in relation to both the heritage of Classical literature and to sources in contemporary martyr-literature. He shows that Prudentius, writing most of his poems at a turning point in the history of the Western Empire, accepted many aspects of secular poetry and combined them with the new ideals and forms of expression provided by Christianity and its growing literature.

Author : Len Krisak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351136925
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prudentius’ Crown of Martyrs written by Len Krisak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prudentius’ Crown of Martyrs offers an English translation, with introduction and commentary, of the Liber Peristephanon, Prudentius’ vivid collection of lyric hymns in honor of Christian martyrs. To render Prudentius’ metrically varied lines for twenty-first-century readers, Len Krisak relies on the inherent iambic nature of English. The introduction offers insight into social, political, and literary features of the fourth century, the life of Prudentius, the poet’s other works, his Latinity and mastery of ancient meters, and the manuscript tradition and the reception of Prudentius in the Middle Ages and beyond. Given Prudentius’ central place in the history of Latin poetry, this translation is a welcome resource for general readers interested in Western literary history. It will also find a home with scholarly audiences working on Late Antique and Early Christian literature and culture, in a wide variety of college classrooms and in academic libraries.

Author : Paula Hershkowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107149606
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prudentius, Spain, and Late Antique Christianity written by Paula Hershkowitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets Prudentius' martyr poetry within the religious, social, and visual contexts of late antique Spain. This original approach utilises the fields of history, archaeology, classical literature and art history, and the book is important for academics and more advanced students within these disciplines.

Author : Michael Roberts
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472104499
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs written by Michael Roberts and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully detailed literary study of Prudentius's eulogies of the Christian martyrs

Author : Paula Hershkowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316604052
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prudentius, Spain, and Late Antique Christianity written by Paula Hershkowitz and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an innovative approach to the Hispano-Roman Christian poet Prudentius and his poetry. It is a breakthrough in Prudentian scholarship which unifies the differing disciplines of history, archaeology, literature and art history in arguing that Prudentius and his envisaged Spanish audience cannot be fully understood in isolation from their environment in late fourth- and early fifth-century Spain. Paula Hershkowitz focuses on Prudentius' Peristephanon, his collection of verses celebrating the deaths of martyrs, and places these poems within the context of Prudentius' world, uniquely employing material, visual and textual remains as evidence for its religious, social and cultural affiliations. It also draws on this material evidence to contextualise Prudentius' awareness of the significance of the visual as a means of promoting beliefs against the background of this crucial formative period in religious history when many of his Spanish audience were not yet fully committed to the Christian faith.

Author : H. J. Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prudentius written by H. J. Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc Mastrangelo
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421402408
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Self in Late Antiquity written by Marc Mastrangelo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-01-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Self in Late Antiquity for the first time situates Prudentius within a broad intellectual, political, and literary context of fourth-century Rome. As Marc Mastrangelo convincingly demonstrates, the late-fourth-century poet drew on both pagan and Christian intellectual traditions—especially Platonism, Vergilian epic poetics, and biblical exegesis—to define a new vision of the self for the newly Christian Roman Empire. Mastrangelo proposes an original theory of Prudentius's allegorical poetry and establishes Prudentius as a successor to Vergil. Employing recent approaches to typology and biblical exegesis as well as the most current theories of allusion and intertextuality in Latin poetry, he interprets the meaning and influence of Prudentius's work and positions the poet as a vital author for the transmission of the classical tradition to the early modern period. This provocative study challenges the view that poetry in the fourth century played a subordinate role to patristic prose in forging Christian Roman identity. It seeks to restore poetry to its rightful place as a crucial source for interpreting the rich cultural and intellectual life of the era.

Author : Marvin W. Meyer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812216929
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Mysteries written by Marvin W. Meyer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999-05-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeus and the other gods of shining Olympus were in reality divine only by popular consent. Over the course of time Olympian luster diminished in favor of religious experiences more immediate to the concerns of people living in an increasingly cosmopolitan ancient world. These experiences were provided by the mysteries, religions that flourished particularly during the Hellenistic period and were secretly practiced by groups of adherents who decided, through personal choice, to be initiated into the profound realities of one deity or another. Unlike the official state religions, in which people were expected to make an outward show of allegiance to the local gods, the mysteries emphasized an inwardness and privacy of worship within a closed band of initiates. In this book, Marvin W. Meyer explores the sacrifices and prayers, the public celebrations and secret ceremonies, the theatrical performances and literary works, the gods and goddesses that were a part of the mystery religions of Greece in the seventh century B.C. to the Judaism and Christianity of the Roman world of the seventh century A.D.

Author : Diane Shane Fruchtman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000630919
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond written by Diane Shane Fruchtman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that living martyrdom was an important spiritual aspiration in the late antique Latin west and argues that, consequently, attempts to define, study, or locate martyrdom must move away from conceptualizations that require or center on death. After an introduction that traces the persistence of "living martyrs" as real objects of spiritual devotion and emulation across the span of Christian history and discusses why such martyrs have been overlooked, the book focuses on three significant authors from the late ancient Latin west for whom martyrdom did not require death: the Spanish poet Prudentius (c. 348–413), the senator-turned-ascetic Paulinus of Nola (353–431), and the influential North African bishop Augustine of Hippo (354–430). Through historically and literarily contextualized close readings of their work, this book shows that each of these three authors attempted to create a new paradigm of martyrdom focused on living, rather than dying, for God. By focusing on these living martyrs, we are able to see more clearly the aspirations and agendas of those who promoted them as martyrs and how their martyrological discourse illuminates the variety of ways that martyrdom is and can be mobilized (in any era) to construct new, community-creating worldviews. Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond is an important resource for historians of Christianity, scholars of religious studies, and anyone interested in exploring or understanding martyrological discourse. The Introduction of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Prudentius
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poems of Prudentius written by Prudentius and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: