Gregory of Nazianzus and the Christian Epigram in the East

Simelidis, Christos

doi:10.1002/9781118841709.ch36

A Companion to Ancient Epigram 2018

DOI: 10.1002/9781118841709.ch36

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Gregory of Nazianzus and the Christian Epigram in the East

Christos Simelidis¹

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“…Gregory wishes to show himself in a specific light to his father and siblings -his brother Caesarius and his sister Gorgonia -due to the spiritual legacy connecting both father and son in their priestly mission. 5 1 On Gregory's epigrammatic production, see Consolino (1987), Conca (2000), Milo (2005), Palla (2015), Ypsilanti (2018), and Simelidis (2019). Gregory's debt to preceding literary tradition has been the focus of many successful studies, such as those by Wyss (1949) and Demoen (1993).…”

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A commentary on Gregory of Nazianzus, AP 8.2

Cerroni¹

2020

Graeco-Latina Brunensia

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This article proposes a formal and linguistic commentary on an epigram by Gregory of Nazianzus (AP 8.21). It then makes some general observations. The poem belongs to a series of epigrams dedicated to Gregory's father, who is also the persona loquens. The poet starts with a well-known scriptural quotation from the Book of Micah (5) about how small Bethlehem is and extends the same concept to Nazianzus, the village whose spiritual care Gregory's father has entrusted to him. In each case, the town's small size corresponds to its inversely proportional spiritual importance. The formal solutions adopted in the epigram, specifically the use of the adjective τυτθός, reveal the poet's admiration for and imitation of Callimachus, but also his originality in renewing pagan poetic language with the purposeful insertion of Christian vocabulary. An area for further research concerns the presence of elements of the most widespread epic diction of Gregory's time (such as the increased use of datives in -εσσι), as found in the Sibylline Oracles and Manetho's Apotelesmatics.

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A commentary on Gregory of Nazianzus, AP 8.2

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GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS IN THEPALATINE ANTHOLOGY: THE POETICS OF CHRISTIAN DEATH

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Greensmith²

2020

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This article is the first to consider book 8 of the Palatine Anthology as an integrated collection. Book 8 consists of funerary epigrams of Gregory of Nazianzus. We consider how the book is structured as a coherent collection, what its place in the Palatine Anthology is and, above all, how these underdiscussed poems contribute to the changing discourse of death in fourth-century Christianity. We also look at how the poems contribute to the Byzantine culture in which the Palatine Anthology was put together. The article reveals how Gregory rewrites both the positive values of death in a Christian community and negative descriptions of those who transgress such values.

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Gregory of Nazianzus and the Christian Epigram in the East

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A commentary on Gregory of Nazianzus, AP 8.2

A commentary on Gregory of Nazianzus, AP 8.2

GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS IN THEPALATINE ANTHOLOGY: THE POETICS OF CHRISTIAN DEATH

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