Search for dissertations about: "Virgil reception"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Virgil reception.

  2. 1. Proba the Prophet: Studies in the Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba

    Author : Sigrid Schottenius; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Proba; Cento; Virgil; early Christian poetry; Bible epic; querelle des femmes; author; reception; typology; hypotextuality.;

    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

  4. 2. Proba the Prophet : Studies in the Christian Virgilian Cento of Proba

    Author : Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed; Mats Malm; Karla Pollmann; idéhistoria och religion Institutionen för litteratur Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : Proba; Cento; Virgil; early Christian poetry; Bible epic; querelle des femmes; author; reception; typology; hypotextuality.; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

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  5. 3. The Sortes Vergilianae : A Philological Study

    Author : Moa Ekbom; Maria Plaza; Diederik W.P. Burgersdijk; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Virgil reception; Historia Augusta; Virgil in the Historia Augusta; bibliomancy; cento; Augustine; Hadrian; Pescennius Niger; Clodius Albinus; Alexander Severus; Claudius Gothicus; Sortes Vergilianae; Sortes Homericae; Sortes Biblicae; Latin; Latin;

    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