By Jennifer Nimmo Smith
The Commentaries translated the following, relationship from the 6th century, express the persisting survival of Greek studying in an more and more Christianised international. The paintings takes the shape of a sequence of factors and glosses of classical references in Gregory's unique Sermons. even if the writer makes use of an trouble-free means of the universities to constitution his textual content, which has little within the means of eloquence or literary paintings, there's a extraordinary single-mindededness and self belief in his motives. the various info given is wrong, and the writer isn't really averse to rewriting texts that he can't clarify. still, the paintings screens a full of life curiosity in Greek studying, and provides a desirable perception into the perspective of 1 specific Christian to its carrying on with validity.
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4, flute music (long condemned by Plato and Aristotle) and self-mutilation in Comm. 5 and Comm. 2 (with immorality), singing, Comm. 27 (followed by immorality). 112 The main manuscripts of the Commentaries are classified by date and content in the introduction to the Commentaries, pp. 15–19. More have been added to the 150 known to me in 1990 by the Repertorium Nazianzenum, published in six volumes by F. Schoningh, Paderborn from 1981–1998. Volumes 1, 3 and 4 were edited by Justin Mossay alone, Volume 2 with the help of X.
Opposing views of the merits of both types of composition are given by A. Cameron, Yale Classical Studies 27, p. D. Usher, Homeric Stitchings, Lanham, MD, and Oxford, 1998. Such ‘cross-overs’ had long been one strand of Christian composition, not merely called forth by Julian’s persecution. Methodius had written a Symposium in praise of Christian virginity in the early 4th century, the form of which, and much of the language, was largely derived from Plato’s own Symposium and other works (see the translation by H.
His work was much used in the schools from the 10th century onwards. PsNonnus_01_Intro 41 11/9/01, 8:22 am xlii THE PSEUDO-NONNUS COMMENTARIES In addition, the author is sometimes embarrassed by the amount of information at his disposal. In Comm. ’ He adds the information about Polyxena (Comm. 70. The same treatment is applied to an extended description of the whipping of the Laconian ephebes at the altar of Artemis in Sparta, which is divided into story 11 (on that topic) and story 12 (on her worship among the Taurians).