Proclo's hymns: memory and synthesis of the ancient hymnody
In the dawn of the antiquity, when the advance of Christianity was unstoppable and the pagan cults contracted in the face of the increasing pressure of the church, Proclus’ figure presents itself as a banner of Greek tradition. The life and works of the neoplatonic philosopher allow seeing a huge ef...
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| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Centro de Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuarioceh/article/view/22701 |
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| Sumario: | In the dawn of the antiquity, when the advance of Christianity was unstoppable and the pagan cults contracted in the face of the increasing pressure of the church, Proclus’ figure presents itself as a banner of Greek tradition. The life and works of the neoplatonic philosopher allow seeing a huge effort to preserve the Hellenic cultural memory in a context where the world that saw it rise was disappearing quickly. The present study has two main foci. Firstly, the presentation of a model of poetic composition based in a phonetic that probably by the 5th century C. e. was no longer the one of the spoken Greek, and that, nonetheless, is systematically used by Proclus for the production of his poetry. Secondly, the structural analysis of a hymn, in order to prove that, in the same recuperation effort, it reflects the patterns detected in the ancient hymns and that it also synthesizes different compositional strategies observed in them. |
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