Search for dissertations about: "cento"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word cento.
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1. De Inconexis Continuum - A Study of the Late Antique Latin Wedding Centos
Abstract : The kind of literature that is called cento is studied in this thesis with a special focus on two late antique Latin wedding poems, Cento Nuptialis written by Ausonius in the late 4th century A.D., and Epithalamium Fridi probably written in Carthage some hundred years later. READ MORE
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2. Proba the Prophet : Studies in the Christian Virgilian Cento of Proba
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3. Proba the Prophet: Studies in the Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba
Abstract : The present study aims to deepen the critical understanding of the fourth century poet Faltonia Betitia Proba’s Cento and its reception, a text of considerable historical and cultural importance. Not only is it one of few extant Latin texts from antiquity by a woman writer, but it is also one of our oldest Christian Latin poems; it is an early example of cultural amalgamation of the Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman exegetical and literary traditions in that it is almost exclusively composed with verses from Virgil’s Aeneid, Georgics, and Eclogues, but narrates key episodes from the Old and New Testament. READ MORE
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4. The Sortes Vergilianae : A Philological Study
Abstract : This study discusses the sortes Vergilianae, which are commonly defined as a form of ancient divination practiced by randomly finding a verse in a volume of Virgil. The practice of sortes Vergilianae has been described as widespread in antiquity. READ MORE