"Six chapters of this volume represent reworkings of papers originally delivered in the panel [on the theme Late antiquity: its uses of ancient texts] ... [at] the inaugural meeting of the Celtic Conference in Classics, held at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, in September 2000"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Textual inheritances and textual relations in late antiquity / J.H.D. Scourfield -- A new created world : classical geographical texts and Christian contexts in late antiquity / Mark Humphries -- Antiquity and authority in Nonius Marcellus / Anna Chahoud -- More Roman than the Romans of Rome : Virgilian (self-)fashioning in Claudian's Panegyric for the consuls Olybrius and Probinus / Stephen Wheeler -- Birth and transfiguration : some gospel episodes in Juvenus and Sedulius / Roger P.H. Green -- Virgil, Christianity, and the Cento probae / Scott McGill -- The Bible hellenized : Nonnus' Paraphrase of St. John's Gospel and Eudocia's Homeric centos / Mary Whitby -- Plotinus and the myth of love / Andrew Smith -- John of Stobi on the soul / John Dillon -- What's in a divine name? : Proclus on Plato's Cratylus / R.M. van den Berg -- Pagans and Christians on providence / Andrew Louth -- Jerome, Virgil, and the captive maiden : the attitude of Jerome to classical literature / Ann Mohr -- John Cassian, the Instituta Aegyptorum, and the apostolic church / Richard J. Goodrich.
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