Gianfranco Agosti
Biographic Data
| ID | 3984623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gianfranco Agosti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gianfranco |
| FAMILY NAME | Agosti |
| SIGNATURE | AGOSTI G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New Evidence of King MḤDYS
The role assigned by the late antique poet Nonnus of Panopolis (mid-fifth century CE) to Modaios, king of the ‘Indians’, in a few passages of his huge poem Dionysiaca, suggests that the choice of the character may be attributable to a connection between the Greek name of the king (Μωδαῖος) and the somewhat enigmatic MḤDYS, a mid-fifth-century king of Aksum, known only from numismatic evidence. The hypothesis opens the way to further reflection on…
Late Antique Poetry and Its Reception
This chapter deals with the classicizing poetry of Late Antiquity and its reception in subsequent centuries. After defining the chronological boundaries of late antique poetry (4th–7th century), it focuses on some crucial issues, like the continuity/reappearance of some late antique forms and types, and the presence of late antique poetic features, in particular the “modern style” (i.e. of Nonnus of Panopolis and his followers) in Byzantine poetr…
Versus De Limine and In Limine
Le iscrizioni metriche e il ruolo della paideia classica in Giordania
Agosti Gianfranco. Le iscrizioni metriche e il ruolo della paideia classica in Giordania. In: Topoi, volume 22/1, 2018. pp. 305-329
The Reception of the Homeric Hymns
"The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond. Although much work has been done on the Hymns over the past few decades, and despite their importance within the Western literary tradition, their influence on authors after the fourth century BC has so far received relatively littl…
Nonnus and Late Antique Society
Study on the role of Nonnus' poems in late antique society. The article suggests that Nonnus in both his poems intended to address cultural and ideological issues relevant to his audience.
Praising the God(s)
This paper studies the reception of the Homeric Hymns in some pagan and Christian poets of Late Antiquity. It offers some methodological remarks on ‘quotations’ or ‘allusions’ and re-use of epic code; and on the need to distinguish between instances of epic language reused by Late Antique poets and actual quotations or borrowings from the Homeric Hymns. After an overall view on the presence of the Hymns in some major poets of Late Antiquity (espe…
Greek Poetry
Scholars have expressed increasing appreciation for the uniqueness of late Greek poetry which had long been dismissed as a mere continuation of the great classical and Hellenistic poetry. This article presents an overview of Greek poetic production in Late Antiquity, focusing on the issues of relationships between poetry and prose, rhetorical structures, social contexts, and performances
Paideia classica e fede religiosa
I carmi epigrafici dell’Oriente tardoantico (fine III-VI sec. d. C.), col loro linguaggio classicistico e altamente formalizzato, sono spesso difficili da interpretare dal punto di vista della confessione religiosa. Quando infatti mancano indizi archeologici o segni esterni (come le croci), oppure il contesto non fornisce sufficienti indicazioni sulla fede dei committenti o dei laudandi, il linguaggio poetico per sua propria natura mostra una cer…
Literariness and Levels of Style in Epigraphical Poetry of Late Antiquity
Nowadays, scholars usually speak of a ‘renaissance’ of poetry in the Greek literature of late antiquity, underlining at the same time the new relevance of poetic communication in late antique society and the renewal of our interest in this not so well-known production of late Greek literature. Renaissance and related terms are, of course, effective ways to describe the flowering of Greek poetry from the fourth to sixth centuries CE, so long as th…
Literariness and Levels of Style in Epigraphical Poetry of Late Antiquity
Nowadays, scholars usually speak of a ‘renaissance’ of poetry in the Greek literature of late antiquity, underlining at the same time the new relevance of poetic communication in late antique society and the renewal of our interest in this not so well-known production of late Greek literature. Renaissance and related terms are, of course, effective ways to describe the flowering of Greek poetry from the fourth to sixth centuries CE, so long as th…
Literariness and Levels of Style in Epigraphical Poetry of Late Antiquity
Nowadays, scholars usually speak of a ‘renaissance’ of poetry in the Greek literature of late antiquity, underlining at the same time the new relevance of poetic communication in late antique society and the renewal of our interest in this not so well-known production of late Greek literature. Renaissance and related terms are, of course, effective ways to describe the flowering of Greek poetry from the fourth to sixth centuries CE, so long as th…
Paideia classica e fede religiosa
I carmi epigrafici dell’Oriente tardoantico (fine III-VI sec. d. C.), col loro linguaggio classicistico e altamente formalizzato, sono spesso difficili da interpretare dal punto di vista della confessione religiosa. Quando infatti mancano indizi archeologici o segni esterni (come le croci), oppure il contesto non fornisce sufficienti indicazioni sulla fede dei committenti o dei laudandi, il linguaggio poetico per sua propria natura mostra una cer…
Greek Poetry
Scholars have expressed increasing appreciation for the uniqueness of late Greek poetry which had long been dismissed as a mere continuation of the great classical and Hellenistic poetry. This article presents an overview of Greek poetic production in Late Antiquity, focusing on the issues of relationships between poetry and prose, rhetorical structures, social contexts, and performances
Nonnus and Late Antique Society
Study on the role of Nonnus' poems in late antique society. The article suggests that Nonnus in both his poems intended to address cultural and ideological issues relevant to his audience.
Praising the God(s)
This paper studies the reception of the Homeric Hymns in some pagan and Christian poets of Late Antiquity. It offers some methodological remarks on ‘quotations’ or ‘allusions’ and re-use of epic code; and on the need to distinguish between instances of epic language reused by Late Antique poets and actual quotations or borrowings from the Homeric Hymns. After an overall view on the presence of the Hymns in some major poets of Late Antiquity (espe…
The Reception of the Homeric Hymns
"The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond. Although much work has been done on the Hymns over the past few decades, and despite their importance within the Western literary tradition, their influence on authors after the fourth century BC has so far received relatively littl…
Versus De Limine and In Limine
Le iscrizioni metriche e il ruolo della paideia classica in Giordania
Agosti Gianfranco. Le iscrizioni metriche e il ruolo della paideia classica in Giordania. In: Topoi, volume 22/1, 2018. pp. 305-329
Late Antique Poetry and Its Reception
This chapter deals with the classicizing poetry of Late Antiquity and its reception in subsequent centuries. After defining the chronological boundaries of late antique poetry (4th–7th century), it focuses on some crucial issues, like the continuity/reappearance of some late antique forms and types, and the presence of late antique poetic features, in particular the “modern style” (i.e. of Nonnus of Panopolis and his followers) in Byzantine poetr…
New Evidence of King MḤDYS
The role assigned by the late antique poet Nonnus of Panopolis (mid-fifth century CE) to Modaios, king of the ‘Indians’, in a few passages of his huge poem Dionysiaca, suggests that the choice of the character may be attributable to a connection between the Greek name of the king (Μωδαῖος) and the somewhat enigmatic MḤDYS, a mid-fifth-century king of Aksum, known only from numismatic evidence. The hypothesis opens the way to further reflection on…
Art (8 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (8 works) · Antique (6 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Poetry (6 works) · History (5 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works)