The Shadow of Creusa: Negotiating Fictionality in Late Antique Latin Literature (Beitrage zur Altertumskunde, 339)

Product Description This study explores the early Christian confrontation with pagan culture as an anticipation of many later clashes between religious orthodoxy and literary fictionality. After a survey of Saint Augustine`s long drawn-out farewell to ancient poetry, the author examines other Late Antique dismissals as well as appropriations of the classical heritage, elucidating a cultural conflict which was to leave traces all through the Middle Ages and beyond. About the Author Anders Cullhed,Stockholm University,Sweden.