Description: Shadow of Creusa : Negotiating Fictionality in Late Antique Latin Literature, Paperback by Cullhed, Anders; Knight, Michael (TRN), ISBN 3110559242, ISBN-13 9783110559248, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Anders Cullhed’s study The Shadow of Creusa explores the early Christian confrontation with pagan culture as a remote anticipation of many later clashes between religious orthodoxy and literary fictionality. After a careful survey of Saint Augustine’s critical attitudes to ancient myth and poetry, summarized as a long drawn-out farewell, Cullhed examines other Late Antique dismissals as well as appropriations of the classical heritage. Macrobius, Martianus Capella and Boethius figure among the Late Antique intellectuals who attempted to save or even restore the old mythology by means of allegorical representation. On the other hand, pious poets such as Paulinus of Nola and Bible epic writers such as Iuvencus or Avitus of Vienne turned against pagan lies, and the mighty arch-bishop of Milan, Saint Ambrose, played off unconditional Christian truth against the last Roman strongholds of cultural pluralism. Thus, The Shadow of Creusa elucidates a cultural conflict which was to leave traces all through the Middle Ages and reach down to our present day.
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Book Title: Shadow of Creusa : Negotiating Fictionality in Late Antique Latin
Number of Pages: 724 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Shadow of Creusa : Negotiating Fictionality in Late Antique Latin Literature
Publisher: DE Gruyter Gmbh, Walter
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Medieval, Ancient / General, Ancient / Greece, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Religious, Ancient & Classical, Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Item Weight: 42.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: Anders Cullhed
Series: Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
