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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Servius"”.
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Reading Servius in Context and Reception
… of Virgil. Virgil’s most famous commentator, Servius, lived at the time when Roman culture was being Christianised and when the greatness of Rome projected in Virgil was in flux. I focus on the reception of Virgil through Servius in this context, concluding with later adaptations in mediaeval …
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LE ETIMOLOGIE GRECHE NEI COMMENTARII DI SERVIO A VIRGILIO
… most notable work of the late Latin grammarian Servius (second half of IV century CE-first quarter of the V century CE) is undoubtedly his commentary on Virgil's Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics. This thesis provides the first ever complete lexicon of the Greek etymological notations (i.e. …
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<i>Quid facit cum evangeliis Maro?</i> The Cultural Background of Sedulius' Intertextual Argument with Vergil in the <i>Paschale carmen</i>
… of selections of the <i>Commentaria</i> of Servius, Macrobius’ <i>Saturnalia</i>, the <i>prooemium</i> to the <i>Interpretationes Vergilianae</i> of Tiberius Claudius Donatus, and the <i>Vitae Vergilianae</i> of Aelius Donatus and Phocas, both the openness of Vergilian reception and the …
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The Poet at Work: Concepts of Authorship in the Ancient Reception of Virgil
This thesis explores how Virgil's readers imagined the authorial techniques and biographical persona of Virgil, the most canonical – yet extraordinarily elusive – Latin poet. While ancient biography is often dismissed as transparently fictional, this thesis makes a case for taking biographical …
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Hendiadys in the Hebrew Bible. An Investigation of the Applications of the Term
It is evident that the term hendiadys, which is derived from the classical rhetorical tradition, has for hundreds of years been frequently applied to constructions and combinations of components in the Hebrew Bible. This study investigates on which constructions and components in the Hebrew Bible …