Marc Mastrangelo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5423271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Mastrangelo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Mastrangelo |
| SIGNATURE | MASTRÁNGELO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dickinson College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Early Christian Reception of Epicureanism
This paper begins with a brief survey of modern scholarly approaches to the early Christian, patristic reception of Epicureanism. Having established this context of reception, I argue that early Christian poets mirror the didacticism and psychagogy seen in the Epicurean poetic tradition as established by Epicurus, Philodemus, Lucretius, and Horace. Unlike previous studies of early Christian reception of Epicureanism (Rapisarda [1951], Jungkuntz […
Willy Evenepoel
The Early Christian Response to Platonist Poetics
The ancient “quarrel between philosophy and poetry,” articulated anew as a quarrel between poetry and theology, became fundamental to the Christian conception of literature in the fourth through sixth centuries of the Latin West. Mediated through patristic literature, a Platonist critique of poetry dominated, denying poetry’s claims to truth and conferring upon poetry a secondary intellectual status. This chapter argues that Boethius counters thi…
Speculative Grammar and Stoic Language Theory in Medieval Allegorical Narrative from Prudentius to Alan of Lille
The Decline of Poetry in the Fourth-Century West
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity for the first time situates Prudentius within a broad intellectual, political, and literary context of fourth-century Rome. As Marc Mastrangelo convincingly demonstrates, the late-fourth-century poet drew on both pagan and Christian intellectual traditions—especially Platonism, Vergilian epic poetics, and biblical exegesis—to define a new vision of the self for the newly Christian Roman Empire. Mastrangelo propose…
The meaning of Republic 606a3–b5
If you would reflect that the part of the soul that in the former case, in our own misfortunes, was forcibly restrained, and that has hungered for tears and a good cry and satisfaction, because it is its nature to desire these things, is the element in us that the poets satisfy and delight, and that the best element in our nature, since it has never been properly educated by reason or even by habit, then relaxes its guard over the plaintive part,…
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity for the first time situates Prudentius within a broad intellectual, political, and literary context of fourth-century Rome. As Marc Mastrangelo convincingly demonstrates, the late-fourth-century poet drew on both pagan and Christian intellectual traditions—especially Platonism, Vergilian epic poetics, and biblical exegesis—to define a new vision of the self for the newly Christian Roman Empire. Mastrangelo propose…
The Decline of Poetry in the Fourth-Century West
The meaning of Republic 606a3–b5
If you would reflect that the part of the soul that in the former case, in our own misfortunes, was forcibly restrained, and that has hungered for tears and a good cry and satisfaction, because it is its nature to desire these things, is the element in us that the poets satisfy and delight, and that the best element in our nature, since it has never been properly educated by reason or even by habit, then relaxes its guard over the plaintive part,…
The meaning of Republic 606a3–b5
If you would reflect that the part of the soul that in the former case, in our own misfortunes, was forcibly restrained, and that has hungered for tears and a good cry and satisfaction, because it is its nature to desire these things, is the element in us that the poets satisfy and delight, and that the best element in our nature, since it has never been properly educated by reason or even by habit, then relaxes its guard over the plaintive part,…
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity for the first time situates Prudentius within a broad intellectual, political, and literary context of fourth-century Rome. As Marc Mastrangelo convincingly demonstrates, the late-fourth-century poet drew on both pagan and Christian intellectual traditions—especially Platonism, Vergilian epic poetics, and biblical exegesis—to define a new vision of the self for the newly Christian Roman Empire. Mastrangelo propose…
The Decline of Poetry in the Fourth-Century West
Speculative Grammar and Stoic Language Theory in Medieval Allegorical Narrative from Prudentius to Alan of Lille
The Early Christian Response to Platonist Poetics
The ancient “quarrel between philosophy and poetry,” articulated anew as a quarrel between poetry and theology, became fundamental to the Christian conception of literature in the fourth through sixth centuries of the Latin West. Mediated through patristic literature, a Platonist critique of poetry dominated, denying poetry’s claims to truth and conferring upon poetry a secondary intellectual status. This chapter argues that Boethius counters thi…
Willy Evenepoel
Early Christian Reception of Epicureanism
This paper begins with a brief survey of modern scholarly approaches to the early Christian, patristic reception of Epicureanism. Having established this context of reception, I argue that early Christian poets mirror the didacticism and psychagogy seen in the Epicurean poetic tradition as established by Epicurus, Philodemus, Lucretius, and Horace. Unlike previous studies of early Christian reception of Epicureanism (Rapisarda [1951], Jungkuntz […
Art (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Poetry (4 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)