Exile and return in John Mauropous, Poem 47
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11744989 |
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| Authors | Christopher Livanos (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 38-49 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-0131 • E-ISSN: 1749-625X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1179/030701308x259651 |
| OpenAlex | W2081245963 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
The author reads an epigram by John Mauropous as an engagement with epic and biblical traditions. Critical studies of exile and return from different eras of the Greek literary tradition by Émile Benveniste, Gregory Nagy and Nancy Sultan are used to provide a theoretical approach to the tradition with which Mauropous engages. It is suggested that Mauropous’ wanderings in the territory of the xenos and return to the familiar world of the philos , and especially his personification of his home as a trophos (nurse) , allude to Homer, and that epic language and motifs strengthen the poet’s assertion of selfhood and make ancient literary themes relevant to Mauropous’ life as a scholar and churchman
Art · Literature · Poetry · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Studies and Philology · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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