Search for dissertations about: "cento poetry"
Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words cento poetry.
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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