A Companion to Late Antique Literature

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by Scott McGill


  and paganism 261, 263, 269, 270

  Protestantism 173, 603, 608

  as religion of translation 64

  and Roman Empire 4, 87, 404, 506, 508

  Christodorus of Coptus 224, 247, 249

  Christology 47, 48, 49, 51, 52

  Chromatius of Aquileia 170

  Chronici canones (Eusebius) 183

  Chronici canones (Jerome) 184

  Chronicle of Arbela 55

  Chronicle of Edessa 55, 56

  Chronicle of Fredegar (Gregory of Tours) 592

  Chronicle of Joshua 56

  Chronicle of Zuqnin 55, 56

  chronicles 37–38, 177–192 see also specific chronicles

  consularia 178–182

  definitions 177–178

  following sixth century 187–188

  Greek historiography 14

  and history 143

  Syriac historiography 55

  typical late antique 183–187

  Chronicon Paschale 186, 188

  Chronographia (Theophanes) 180, 183

  Chronographia Golenischevensis 181

  Chrysostom, Dio 203–204

  Chrysostom, John 62, 335, 354, 410 and Byzantium period 559, 560

  On the Priesthood 350, 353

  and sermons 343, 344, 346, 347, 349, 350–351, 352

  Church Fathers 79, 336, 339, 441, 535 and Byzantium period 559–560, 564, 565

  and early modern receptions of late antique literature 597, 598, 603–604, 606, 607

  Egyptian 566

  church history 92, 153, 164, 165, 167, 169, 172 see also ecclesiastical history

  Church History (Eusebius) 328, 333

  Church of St. Polyeuctus 251

  Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem 362

  Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem 362

  Cicero 31, 195, 212, 215, 525, 526, 592, 605 Epistles 615

  and letters/letter collections 389, 391, 393–395, 397–398

  Circus Maximus 254

  City of God (Augustine) 614–615

  classicizing of history/historical epitomes 143–159

  classroom practice 479–484

  Claudian, works of 29, 32, 195, 209, 254, 529, 632 De raptu Proserpinae 230, 588–589

  epic poetry 223, 228–229, 230

  epigrams and occasional poetry 245, 246, 247, 254, 255

  and Gibbon 613, 615, 616

  Claudius Gothicus II 214

  Claudius II (r. 268–270) 145

  Claudius Mamertinus 210, 216

  von Clausewitz, Carl 497

  Clemens, Aurelius Prudentius 233

  Clement of Alexandria 162, 261, 332

  Codex Gregorianus 418

  Codex Hermogenianus 418

  Codex of Visions 225, 262

  Colet, John (1467–1519) 602

  Collected Discourses (Gregory the Illuminator) 81

  Collectio Avellana (collections of papal letters) 35

  Colluthus 222, 224

  Columba (Celtic poet) 256

  Comes, Marcellinus 38

  Cominianus 454

  Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (CAG) 305

  commentaries 6 Avesta, on 106–107, 111

  biblical 313–325 Syriac literature 48–49

  covering a whole work 303–305

  defining the commentator 307–309

  determining what counts as commentary 298

  and exegesis 299–300

  formal 299

  philosophical 297–312 background 297–299

  discursive evaluation 302

  essays and short lectures 302

  forms 300–305

  isagogical issues 300

  paraphrase 302–303

  partial or selective comments 303

  summary 302–303

  techniques and strategies 305–307

  “running” 299, 300, 303–305

  scriptural 345

  Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories (Sergius of Reshaina) 54, 57

  Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories (Simplicius) 303

  Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics (Simplicius) 302

  Commentary on Plato’s Theaetetus 298

  Commentary on The Dream of Scipio (Macrobius) 290

  Commentary on the Gospel of St. John (Cyril of Alexandria) 264, 315

  Common Era 473

  Commonitorium, The (Orientius) 33, 272

  competition 494–496

  compilations see also abbreviated texts; condensed texts

  Florilegium 439–441

  forms 442–443

  transformation of texts into new and condensed forms 443–445

  Complaint of Nature (Alan of Lille) 282

  Concerning Iconoclasm (Vrt’anes K’ertol) 81

  condensed texts 435, 437–439 transformation of original texts into condensed forms 443–445

  Conferences (Cassian) 39

  Confessio of Patrick 40

  Confessions (Augustine) 264, 374, 375, 376, 525, 616, 639

  Conrad of Hirsau 588

  Consentius 452, 453, 459 De barbarismis et metaplasmis 459, 463–464

  Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius) 32, 282, 284, 289, 291, 584, 588 extraordinary verses 285–287

  consolation of temporality 285

  Constans 211

  Constantina 269

  Constantine Porphyrogenitus 145, 146

  Constantine the Great (272–337) (Emperor, 306–337) 37, 94, 334, 343, 362, 380 and inscriptions 506, 510

  legal texts 421, 423–426

  letter about Proculus 510, 512, 514, 515, 517, 518, 519

  Constantinople 148, 170, 179, 197, 216, 261, 348, 353, 383, 432, 563 and antiquarian literature 541, 549

  and Armenia/Armenian literature 80, 83

  Councils 183, 335, 408, 409, 411, 543

  elite 245

  and epic poetry 224, 227

  and epigrams/occasional poetry 246, 252

  and epistolography 393, 394

  foundation 557

  and Georgia/Georgian literature 94, 100

  and Greek language/literary works 13, 16

  hippodrome 542

  Justinian 153, 262

  and Latin literature 30, 34, 38

  law schools 528

  monuments 265

  Patriarch of 17, 250

  and pseudepigraphy 409, 411

  Constantius 39–40, 152, 211, 216, 621

  Constantius Chlorus 427

  Constantius II 149, 150, 437

  consularia 178–182

  Consularia Caesaraugustana 182, 186

  Consularia Italica 178–182, 186

  Consularia Marsiburgensia 181–182

  Consularia Scaligeriana 180–181

  Consularia Vindobonensia 180, 181, 182

  Conte, Gian Biagio 288

  Contra Celsum (Origen, 248 CE) 12, 333

  Contra Symmachum (Prudentius) 255, 269, 272

  Conversion of K’art’li 92–95, 98

  Coptic language and literary culture 61–74 see also Shenoute (Coptic author, 347–465); White Monastery (near Panopolis)

  church history 165

  codices 64–65

  early Coptic manuscripts 64

  and Greek language/literary works 10–11, 63, 66, 71

  history 62–63

  meaning of “Coptic literature” 63

  Nag Hammadi, codices discovered at 65

  Old Coptic (traditional Egyptian religion) 63, 64

  original 66–71

  origins of Coptic literature, and translation 64–66

  problems with Coptic manuscripts 62–63

  and pseudepigraphy 411

  replacement of Coptic with Arabic as language of Coptic Christians 62

  Scriptures 532

  syntax 68

  translation 64–66

  copying of manuscripts 601

  Corippus, Flavius Cresonius (African poet) 30, 32, 209, 229, 245, 246

  Cornelius Tacitus 144, 149

  Corpus Areopagiticum/Dionysiacum 411<
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  Corti, Maria 391

  Cosmas Indicopleustes 14, 367–368

  Council of Chalcedon 47, 61, 409 Christian theological literature 336, 337

  Fourth Ecumenical (451) 94, 169

  opposition to 63, 70, 71, 394, 560

  Council of Constance 603

  Council of Constantinople 335

  Council of Ephesus 409, 529

  Council of Nicaea 334, 409

  Council of Trullo 409

  Cox, Patricia 379

  Creation, the 34, 50, 170, 256 biblical commentary 317, 318, 319, 321

  chronicles 182, 184

  epic poetry 231, 232

  Creed, the 49

  Crete, conquest of (960–961) 562

  Cretensis, Dictys 444

  Cribiore, Raffaella 482, 484

  Croke, Brian 186

  Crucifixion 268

  cultural texts, Pahlavi (Middle Persian) literature 112–113

  Cupid and Psyche (Apuleius) 291

  Cʻurtaveli, Iakob 89

  Cynic‐Stoic diatribe 346, 347

  Cyprian (Heptateuch Poet) 34, 40

  Cyprian of Antioch, St. (Eudocia) 227, 242, 264

  Cyprian of Carthage 334

  Cyprian of Gaul 314, 317, 322, 601

  Cyril of Alexandria 80, 264, 336, 337

  Cyrillona 50

  Cyrus of Panopolis 246

  Cyrus the Great 75

  al‐Ḍabbī of Kūfa, al‐Muafaḍḍal ibn Muḥammad (d. 780or 786) 133

  Dādestān ī Dēnīg 110

  Daia, Maximinius 409

  Damascus (ca. 458–538) 302

  Damasus, Pope (ca. 305–384) 269

  Damian (578–607), patriarchate of 63, 71

  Daniel of Tur Abdin 171

  Dante 108

  Dares of Frigia 37, 40

  Darial Gate 88

  Darius the Great 75

  Das systematische Lehrbuch (Fuhrmann) 492

  Day of Judgment 262

  De barbarismis et metaplasmis (Consentius) 459, 463–464

  de Gourmont, Remy 631

  De medicamentis (Empiricus) 495, 498, 499

  De principiis (Origen) 332–333, 334, 339

  De raptu Proserpinae (Claudian) 230, 588–589

  De Reditu Suo (Rutilius Namatianus) 32–33, 367

  De Viris Illustribus (Jerome) 162, 328, 329, 333, 377

  De vita sua (Gregory of Nazianzus) 374, 377

  decadent and aesthetic late antique literature 628–633

  Deipnosophists (Athenaeus) 284, 289

  Demosthenes 316, 558

  Denkard (Acts of Religion) 107, 111, 114

  Descriptio Consulum 178, 179, 182, 184, 186, 188

  Description of St. Sophia (Paul the Silentiary) 264

  Description of the Ambo of St. Sophia (Paul the Silentiary) 265

  Desiderius of Cahors (d. ca. 655) 35

  Deuteronomy 69

  Dexippus, Publius Herennius (of Athens) 145, 146, 147, 148

  Dialogus super Auctores (Conrad of Hirsau) 588

  Diatessaron of Tatian 48, 533

  dictionaries 106, 113, 585

  didactic poems/texts 110, 225, 255, 263

  Didascalia Apostolorum 138, 408–409

  Digest 419, 529

  Dillon, John 300, 422, 423, 424

  Dio, Cassius 145, 148

  Diocletian (284–305) 28, 409, 418, 508 Edict on Maximum Prices 421, 507, 514

  Diodore (theologian of the East Syriac Church) 49, 50, 54, 335

  Diodorus of Aphrodito 245

  Diogenes the Cynic 572

  Diomedes 452, 454, 460, 461, 463

  Dionysiaca (Nonnos of Panopolis) 13, 221

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus 196

  Dioscoros of Aphrodito 224

  Dioscorus of Alexandria 70, 266

  Diphilus 210

  Disticha Catonis/Dicta Catonis 255, 407

  Divinarum institutionum libri vii (Lactantius) 333, 334, 587

  Divine Comedy (Dante) 108

  Doctrine of Addai 47, 55

  Donatio Constantini 411

  Donatism 171

  Donato, Antonio 285–286

  Donatus 458, 459, 460 Ars maior/Ars minor 452, 453, 454, 455, 465

  Donner, Fred 136

  Doody, Aude 496

  Dositheus 462

  Dracontius (ca. 455–505) 30, 34, 272, 273, 590

  Draxt ī Asūrīg (The Assyrian Tree) 108

  Dream of Scipio (Cicero) 31

  Drepanius, Pacatus 215

  Droge, Arthur J. 138

  Dronke, Peter 281

  Drueger, Derek 377

  Dura Europos 365

  early modern period humanism 597, 598, 599, 600

  Jerome (Saint) 604–608

  late ancient texts, encountering in context of 599–604

  reception of late antique literature in 597–610

  Eberhard the German 588, 589

  ecclesiastical history 161–175 Armenian literature 79–81

  biography 166

  conflict 38

  development 168–173

  genre 163–166

  hagiography 166

  origins 162–163

  preservation of texts 168

  and theology 166–167

  Ecclesiastical History (Eusebius of Caesarea) 55, 70, 164, 171, 378

  Eclogarum in libros historicos Veteris Testamenti epitome (Procopius of Gaza) 441

  Eclogues 244

  Edessa 171, 362, 382 archives 53

  dialect 532, 533

  School of the Persians in 51, 52, 56

  and Syriac literature 47, 50–53, 55, 56

  Edict of Milan (313) 409

  Edict on Maximum Prices (Diocletian) 421, 507, 514

  editions inscriptions 508–510

  printed 602

  Edwards, M.J. 374

  Egeria 39, 362

  Egypt see also Coptic language and literary culture

  10‐day week 542

  Bohairic language 64

  church 70

  Church Fathers 566

  Egyptian monks 66

  Hellenistic 528

  monastic life 481

  monks of 381

  Olympiodorus of Thebes 154

  papyri 10, 524

  traditional religion (Old Coptic) 63, 64

  Ehrman, Bart D. 401, 408

  Eight Books of Miracles (Gregory of Tours) 592

  EKG (Enmannsche Kaisergeschichte) 149, 150, 184, 438

  ekphrastic poems 224

  Elean Olympics 203

  elegiacs 248, 249, 250, 255, 587, 588

  Elias Of Merw 172

  Eliot, T.S. 634

  Elishe 82

  eloquentia (speaking well) 500

  Elpidius, Rusticus 250

  ELQ (Evangelium libri quattuor) (Juvencus) 230

  Emmel, Stephen 68

  Empedocles 297

  Empiricus, Marcellus 495, 498, 499

  encomiastic poetry 248

  encomium (praise of individuals) 194, 205

  encyclopedias 107, 145, 248, 256, 289, 442, 465, 550, 561, 585 abbreviated and condensed texts 438, 439

  Endelechius 271, 272

  Enipeus 199

  Enmann, Alexander 149

  Enmannsche Kaisergeschichte (EKG) 149, 150, 184, 438

  Enneads (Plotinus) 12

  Ennodius of Pavia (473/474–521) 27, 29, 35, 248, 253, 254, 273, 284, 437, 590

  Ephemeris Belli Troiani (Dictys of Crete) 406

  Ephereridos (Dictys of Crete) 37

  Ephrem Syrus (d. 373) 47–50, 51, 52, 53, 80

  Epic Cycle 222

  epic poetry 221–240, 321 Christian 264–265

  Greek epic 221–227

  Latin 227–233

  epic texts, Pahlavi (Middle Persian) literature 110–111

  epideictic oratory 193–208 defining ‘epideictic,’ 194–195

  epitaphios (prose eulogy) 202

  epithalamium 198–200

  festal oration 197, 202–204

>   geographical texturing 198–199

  monody 200–201

  persuasion 205

  praise and blame 211

  prose 193

  pure display 196

  rhetoric 194, 212

  social aspects 196–197

  sophistry 204–205

  speeches as a literary genre 197

  topoi 196, 201

  Epigramma Paulini 272

  epigrammatists 252, 253

  epigrams 242, 249, 251–253, 254, 256, 376, 524 and Christian poetry 264, 269

  epigraphic poems 251, 253–254

  Epiphanius of Salamis 66, 80, 335

  epistolary collections 245

  epistolography 389–400, 492 see also Abar Ēwēnag ī Nāmag Nibēsišnīh (On the Manner of Book/Letter Writing)

  Ars dictaminis (art of letter writing) 590

  complexity 389

  Constantine’s letter about Proculus 510, 512, 514, 515, 517, 518, 519

  forged letters 410

  innovation individual letter 396–398

  late antique letter collection 394–396

  late antiquity as Golden Age 390

  Latin 34–36

  letter collections 10, 389, 394–396 Roman letter collections in later period 390–394

  macrotext 391, 395

  misconduct 393

  papal letters 35

  senatorial 398

  Syriac literature 54–55

  travel/pilgrimage literature 360–362

  epitaphios (prose eulogy) 202

  epitaphios logos (“funeral speech”) tradition 212

  epithalamia 30, 198–200, 247, 248

  Epitoma (Vegetius) 497

  Epitoma rei militaris (Renatus) 497

  Epitomē of Theophrastus’ On Sense Perception (Priscian) 303

  Epitomē of Theophrastus’ Physics (Simplicius) 303

  epitomes, historical 6, 36, 143–159, 443–445

  Erasmus, Desiderius (1466–1536) 205, 604–608

  Eriugena, John Scotus 12, 338

 

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