The Paradigm of Simias : : Essays on Poetic Eccentricity / / Jan Kwapisz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Kwapisz, Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• שנת הוצאה לאור: 2019
• שפה: English
• סדרה: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 75
• תיאור פיזי: 1 online resource (X, 193 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: The Paradigm of Simias --; 1. The Three Preoccupations of Simias of Rhodes --; 2. Laevius’ Broken Wing and the Banquet of Riddlers --; 3. Optatian Porfyry and the Order of Court Riddlers --; 4. The Invention of the Figure Poem in Byzantium --; Appendix: A New Alexandria and its Little Museum --; Bibliography --; Index of Sources and Passages Cited --; General Index
• סיכום: 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.
• פורמט: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110640106; 9783110762464; 9783110719567; 9783110616859; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610093; 9783110605945
• ISSN: 1868-4785
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110640106
• גישה: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jan Kwapisz.

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...