The Paradigm of Simias: Essays on Poetic Eccentricity

Author:   Jan Kwapisz
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Volume:   75
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9783110635935


Pages:   203
Publication Date:   19 February 2019
Format:   Hardback
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This book’s concern is with notoriously obscure ancient poets-riddlers, whom it argues to have been an essential, albeit necessarily marginal, element of the literary landscape of Antiquity, which, in addition, exerted subtle yet lasting influence on European culture. The three first essays in this book trace a direct line of influence between the early Hellenistic scholar-poet Simias of Rhodes, the late Republican Roman experimentalist Laevius and Constantine the Great’s virtuoso panegyrist Optatian Porfyry, whereas the fourth essay discusses the preservation and transformation of the model invented by Simias in Byzantium. The Appendix reflects on the triumph of this intellectual paradigm in Neo-Latin Jesuit education by investigating the case of a peripheral yet highly influential Central European college at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book is at once a contribution to the scholarship on the reception of Hellenistic poetry and to the study of ancient ‘technopaegnia’ (i.e. playful poetry) and their cultural influence in Antiquity, Byzantium and post-mediaeval Europe.

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Author:   Jan Kwapisz
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter
Volume:   75
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9783110635935


ISBN 10:   3110635933
Pages:   203
Publication Date:   19 February 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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K.s Studie, die von einer Einleitung (1- 16) sowie einer Bibliographie (167-180) und nutzlichen Indices (181-193) flankiert wird, ist fur ihren weit ausgreifenden Ansatz bei gleichzeitiger Konzentration auf das Wesentliche sowie philologischer und textkritischer Liebe zum Detail zu loben. Dass es sich um ein weniger als zweihundert Seiten langes Buch handelt, tragt in positiver Weise dazu bei, dass eine Von-vorne-bis-hinten-Lekture problemlos moeglich ist. Silvio Bar in: Gnomon 7/2021, 654-656.


"""K.s Studie, die von einer Einleitung (1- 16) sowie einer Bibliographie (167-180) und n�tzlichen Indices (181-193) flankiert wird, ist f�r ihren weit ausgreifenden Ansatz bei gleichzeitiger Konzentration auf das Wesentliche sowie philologischer und textkritischer Liebe zum Detail zu loben. Dass es sich um ein weniger als zweihundert Seiten langes Buch handelt, tr�gt in positiver Weise dazu bei, dass eine Von-vorne-bis-hinten-Lekt�re problemlos m�glich ist."" Silvio B�r in: Gnomon 7/2021, 654-656."


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Jan Kwapisz, University of Warsaw, Poland.

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