Genres Rediscovered. Studies in Latin Miniature Epic, Love Elegy, and Epigram of the Romano-Barbaric Age

Anna Maria Wasyl

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Wasyl, Anna Maria. Genres Rediscovered. Studies in Latin Miniature Epic, Love Elegy, and Epigram of the Romano-Barbaric Age. Red. . Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2011, 286 s. ISBN 978-83-233-3089-9

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A reader of the epyllion by Dracontius, the elegy by Maximianus, and the epigram by Luxorius should not expect that these works – and these new embodiments of the ‘old’ genres – will be wholly identical with their ‘...

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Introduction8
PART ONE. The Miniature Epic in Vandal Africa and the Heritage of a "Non-Genre"12
I. 1. Defi ning the (Latin) epyllion: some recapitulations13
I. 2. La narrazione commentata: the narrator's presence in Dracontius's epyllia29
I. 2. 1. Hylas31
I. 2. 2. De raptu Helenae31
I. 2. 3. Medea39
I. 2. 4. Orestis Tragoedia42
I. 3. Dracontius and the poetics of "non-Homeric" epic49
I. 3. 1. Hylas50
I. 3. 2. De raptu Helenae52
I. 3. 3. Medea59
I. 3. 4. Orestis Tragoedia65
I. 4. "Mixing of genres" in Dracontius's epyllia75
I. 4. 1. Hylas76
I. 4. 2. De raptu Helenae79
I. 4. 3. Medea85
I. 4. 4. Orestis Tragoedia91
I. 5. Dracontius's epyllia: fi nal remarks98
I. 6. The Aegritudo Perdicae and the epyllion tradition100
PART TWO. The Elegy without Love: Maximianus and His Opus110
II. 1. The supposed liber elegiarum or how to make Maximianus readable as an elegiac poet?111
II. 2. The polyphony of lament: themes and forms in "Elegy" 1118
II. 3. 1. "Elegy" 2: Lycoris134
II. 3. Love memories in episodes: "Elegies" 2-5134
II. 3. 2. "Elegy" 3: Aquilina137
II. 3. 3. "Elegy" 4: Candida143
II. 3. 4. "Elegy" 5: Graia puella147
II. 3. 5. And yet non omnis moriar: the coda (or "Elegy" 6)156
II. 4. Maximianus's elegy: fi nal remarks157
PART THREE. The Roman Epigram in the Romano-Barbaric World160
III. 1. Martial and the defi nition of the Roman epigram161
III. 2. "The Martial of the Vandals:" Luxorius, the follower and the innovator166
III. 2. 1. The dull epigrammatist and his not too learned public: Luxorius's self-presentation166
III. 2. 2. The liber epigrammaton and its characteristics183
III. 2. 3. 1. Scoptic epigrams188
III. 2. 3. The poems: an overview188
III. 2. 3. 2. Epideictic and ecphrastic epigrams201
III. 2. 3. 3. Laudationes and epitaphia210
III. 2. 4. Luxorius's epigrams: fi nal remarks212
III. 3. 1. 1. The sylloge and its characteristics215
III. 3. 1. Unius poetae sylloge215
III. 3. Luxorius and his contemporary epigrammatic writing215
III. 3. 1. 2. The poems: an overview220
III. 3. 2. 1. Jacques Sirmond's edition or was Ennodius a self-conscious epigrammatist?233
III. 3. 2. Ennodius and his epigrams233
III. 3. 2. 2. Notes on selected poems240
Conclusion248
Bibliography251
Index of Ancient and Medieval Authors and Works283

THEMINIATUREEPICINVANDALAFRICAANDTHEHERITAGEOFA.NON-GENRE’

indeed,seemtoreﬂectthezreal,worldandthezreal,calamities.26Itisquiteprobablethat

formanyofhisreaders,eventhosesomewhatlessfamiliarwiththeclassicaltopoi,the

ﬁgureofHesioneoftheDeraptuHelenaewouldhavebeencomparabletothewidowand

thedaughtersofValentinianIII,whereastheassassinationsinthehouseoftheAtreides

werenotmuchdiferentfromthedynasticdramasoftheVandalrulers.Inotherwords,as

theItalianscholarconcludes,thezmyth,wasnotonlyamerelyrhetoricalelement;itcould

stillbeusedtorepresentpeople,spassionsandsuferings.

Naturally,particularlyrelevantinsuchacontextseemstheproblemtowhatextentinthe

miniatureepiccomposedinVandalAfricaonecanstilldiscoverfeaturespeculiartoear-

lierexamplesofthisliteraryform.Hencethequestionoftheepyllionzheritage,posedin

thetitleofthepresentpartofmybook.Asamatteroffact,thealreadyquotedmonograph

byBrightdoesnotbringhereafullysatisfactoryanswer,aboveallforthisveryreason

thattheauthorhasnotdevelopedinefectasufcientlythoroughdeﬁnitionofwhatan

epyllionreallyis.27Consequently,hisbook–oferingforthemostpartagoodanalysisof

singlepoems(eventhoughIdonotalwaysagreewithcertainpointshemakes)–does

notreallyshowinamoresystematicwaywhataspectsofDracontius,spoeticscouldand

shouldbeinterpretedaszepyllic,andwhatis,andpreciselyhowdeepis,theepyllionheri-

tagetobefoundinhispoemsandintheAegritudo.

Undoubtedly,asIhavementionedabove,theminiatureepicwithitsinnateexperi-

mentalismresiststooeasyortoonarrowclassiﬁcations.Tisdoesnotmean,however,

thatoursomewhatzwayward,genre(ornon-genre)cannotbedescribedinanyproper

manner.Genialinitssimplicityandsafelyapplicableto(probably)alltextseverlabeledas

epylliaseemstheformulaprovidedbyBouquetandWolfintheirprefacetotheedition

ofDracontius,sworks:“poèmeﬁni…,d,unelongueurcompriseentre100et1000vers,

écritenhexamètresdactyliquesetempruntantsonsujetàlamythologieetauxcycles

épiques,avecuneprédilectionpourleshistoiresamoureusesetcriminelles.”28Asitap-

pearsthough,weneednotbesominimalisticinourstatementsnottorisktoomuchsche-

bersofherfar-famedsenatewanderallovertheworld,gettingmeansofexistencefromthebounty

ofkindlystrangers,movingthetearsofbeholders,andteachingtheuncertaintyandinstabilityof

thelotofman.”Iquotetheopeningpassageoftheletter(translatedbyBlomﬁeldJackson)fromthe

editionbyPhilipSchaf,Teodoret,Jerome,GennadiusandRuﬁnus:HistoricalWritingsaccessible

onlineat:http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf203.iv.x.xxix.html[May13,2010].

26Romano(1985:379),emphasizingthetragiccharacterofDracontius,spoemsandofthe

AegritudoPerdicae,notesrightly:“inunaetàdiangosciaqualequelladeiprimitempidelladomi-

nazionevandala…,incuil,oppressionedelnuovopotereeraavvertitadallaclasseintellettuale

romana,unpoetanonpotevanonessereportatoaprivilegiaretemidicaratteretragico....È,quella

diDraconzioedell,autoredellaAegritudo,un,etàchenonpuòenonsaesserelieta.”

27Infact,whatBrightprovidesareonlyrathersuperﬁcialobservations.Attheveryoutsetof

hisbookhenotes(pp.3-4):“Testudyofthisnongenrehasalwaysbeenfragmentedandplagued

byincompleteorcontradictorydeﬁnitions.…Atanyrate,therehasbeennodisputewiththe

propositionthatthepoemsarenarrativehexametercompositionsonheroicorquasi-heroictopics

displayingthehighestformofAlexandrianpolish.”

28Bouquet–Wolf1995:37.Seealsotheirfurthercommentsonthefollowingpages(37-43).

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