ON CERTAIN EPISODES IN THE FOURTH BOOK OF MALORY'S "MORTE DARTHUR"

Medium Ævum ◽  
1933 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Morte Darthur ◽  
Fourth Book

Propertius, Greek Myth, and Virgil

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Heslin
Keyword(s):  
Near Neighbour ◽  
Greek Myth ◽  
Relative Dating ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Military ◽  
Working Out ◽  
Fourth Book

This book develops a new interpretation of Propertius’ use of Greek myth and of his relationship to Virgil, working out the implications of a revised relative dating of the two poets’ early works. It begins by examining from an intertextual perspective all of the mythological references in the first book of Propertius. Mythological allegory emerges as the vehicle for a polemic against Virgil over the question of which of them would be the standard-bearer for Alexandrian poetry at Rome. Virgil began the debate with elegy by creating a quasi-mythological figure out of Cornelius Gallus, and Propertius responded in kind: his Milanion, Hylas and several of his own Galluses respond primarily to Virgil’s Gallus. In the Georgics, Virgil’s Aristaeus and Orpheus are, in part, a response to Propertius; Propertius then responds in his second book via his own conception of Orpheus and Adonis. The polemic then took a different direction, in the light of Virgil’s announcement of his intention to write an epic for Octavian. Virgilian pastoral was no longer the antithesis of elegy, but its near neighbour. Propertius critiqued Virgil’s turn to epic in mythological terms throughout his second book, while also developing a new line of attack. Beginning in his second book and intensifying in his third, Propertius insinuated that Virgil’s epic in progress would turn out to be a tedious neo-Ennian annalistic epic on the military exploits of Augustus. In his fourth book, Propertius finally acknowledged the published Aeneid as a masterpiece; but by then Virgil’s death had brought an end to the fierce rivalry that had shaped Propertius’ career as a poet.

scholarly journals Revising the Supernatural: Prospero Lambertini's Reconsideration of the Concept of Miracle

2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-67
Author(s):  
Alessandro Laverda
Keyword(s):  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
New Classification ◽  
The Future ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Fourth Book ◽  
The Invisible

AbstractAccording to Thomas Aquinas, a miracle had to surpass the whole of the created nature, which meant the visible and corporeal, as well as the invisible and incorporeal nature. Prospero Lambertini (1675–1758), the future Pope Benedict XIV, when he was promoter of the faith, noticed that it was impossible to distinguish a cure that occurred beyond the boundaries of incorporeal and invisible nature (the whole nature) from one that exceeded just corporeal and visible nature. The issue was of utmost importance since it risked delegitimizing the whole system of miracle verification. Consequently, Lambertini, in the fourth book of his magnum opus De servorum Dei beatificatione et beatorum canonizatione (On the Beatification of the Servants of God and the Canonization of the Blessed, 1734–1738), developed a new classification of miracles, which included the works of angels, with the aim of solving the problem. Furthermore, to counteract Spinoza's denial of miracles, he claimed that miracles were not contrary to the laws of nature.

„Die schönste griechische Stadt“. Syrakus bei Cicero und Silius Italicus

Millennium ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-53
Author(s):  
Christoph Schwameis
Keyword(s):  
Second Punic War ◽  
Silius Italicus ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Fourth Book

AbstractBoth in the fourth book of Cicero’s De signis (Verr. 2,4) and in the fourteenth book of Silius Italicus’ Punica, there are descriptions of the city of Syracuse at important points of the texts. In this paper, both descriptions are combined and for the first time thoroughly related. I discuss form and content of the accounts, show their functions in their oratorical and epic contexts and consider their similarities. The most important facets, where the descriptions coincide in, seem to be their link to Marcellus’ conquest in the Second Punic War, the resulting precarious beauty of the city and the specifically Roman perspective on which these ekphraseis are based.

Reading Like a Woman in Malory's Morte Darthur

Arthuriana ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Morte Darthur

„Wenn ein Mensch seinem Nächsten Gewalt antun will . . .“

2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-386
Author(s):  
Christian Blumenthal
Keyword(s):  
Greek Text ◽  
Nineteen Eighties ◽  
Fourth Book

The coptic sahidic version of the Fourth Book of Maccabees was discovered by Enzo Lucchesi in the nineteen eighties and published by Ivan Miroshnikov in 2014, who observed that the Coptic version is sometimes significantly different from the Greek one. This article examines the peculiarities of this translation and tries to show that the Sahidic version has an own paraenetic aim which is quite different from that one of the Greek text.

Prison and Knightly Identity in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur

Arthuriana ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Morte Darthur

Some Persistent Mysteries of Malory’s Texts and Sources

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-117
Author(s):  
Ralph Norris
Keyword(s):  
Rational Solution ◽  
Morte Darthur

Abstract Despite a century of dedicated scholarship, some textual problems remain in Malory’s Morte Darthur that have never been satisfactorily explained. Although these mysteries tend to be rather small, seeking the most probable rational solution to them increases our understanding of Malory as an author, as well as the Morte Darthur as a medieval masterpiece, in addition to the connection between the two. This paper offers explanations of the word amyvestial, of unknown etymology, Sir Gareth’s ungrammatical sobriquet Beaumains and other small but baffling mysteries of Malory’s text.

Once Again King Arthur and the Ambassadors: A Textual Crux in Malory’s Morte Darthur

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Norris
Keyword(s):  
King Arthur ◽  
Morte Darthur ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
Interesting Part

Abstract:From the perspective of textual studies, ‘King Arthur and Emperor Lucius’ is the most interesting part of Sir Thomas Malory’s

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