Het feest van Saturnus. De literatuur van het oude Rome.
Language: Dutch
Published by Athenaeum, 2009
- Softcover
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Atheneum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2007. 533p. Original green cloth with dust wrappers. Reading ribbon. Dust wrappers bit wrinkled and bit worn to edges. Gift intention and small stamp on free endpaper. 'Dichter en filoloog Piet Gerbrandy schreef een geschiedenis van de Latijnse literatuur uit de Klassieke Oudheid, Het feest van Saturnus. Dat is niet het beloofde handboek, maar een zeer persoonlijk overzicht, waarin de christenen niet mogen meedoen en invloed zwaarder weegt dan genie. (.) Dat het hier geen gewone literatuurgeschiedenis betreft, blijkt meteen al uit de tweede titel: De literatuur van het heidense Rome. Christenen mogen dus niet meedoen, wat opmerkelijk genoemd mag worden. Gerbrandy beseft ook dat hij met deze keuze de lezer een verklaring schuldig is. Religie, zo legt hij uit, is een ?interessant maar bedenkelijk atavisme? De religieuze opvattingen en praktijken van de niet christelijke Romeinen zijn dat kennelijk niet, ook al hebben ze met het begrip religio het verschijnsel zijn naam gegeven. ?Iedere keuze is aanvechtbaar,? verontschuldigt Gerbrandy zich, maar ?omdat met de kerkvaders een geheel nieuwe traditie aanvangt, die meer raakvlakken heeft met middeleeuwse theologen dan met Lucretius, Horatius en Tacitus, heb ik hen buiten dit boek gehouden, anders dan in de meeste recente literatuurgeschiedenissen wordt gedaan. Laat een ander het verhaal van die christelijke lijn vertellen.? (.) Afgezien van deze op- en aanmerkingen moet beslist gezegd worden dat Gerbrandy een zorgvuldige lezer is, die zíjn lezers geduldig de finesses van de besproken teksten toont. Een van de hoogtepunten uit het boek is zijn behandeling van Vergilius? Georgica, volgens hem ?het beste gedicht ooit geschreven? In slechts zes bladzijden legt hij uit waarom dat zo is; hij doet dat op een zulk overtuigende wijze dat je bijna geneigd bent hem te geloven. Ook zijn twijfels over de Aeneis zijn de moeite waard. Veel classici lopen als een kat om deze hete brei heen. Gerbrandy niet. Hij stelt zich dezelfde vraag die elke lezer van dit epos zich wel eens heeft gesteld: ?Is Aeneas een held of een zak?? Het optreden van het personage in kwestie is namelijk niet altijd even sympathiek. Bij de brand van Troje redt hij vader en zoon en laat hij zijn vrouw stikken.' (ALLARD SCHRÖDER in Vrij Nederland, september 4th, 2007).…
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- Title
- Het feest van Saturnus. De literatuur van het oude Rome.
- Author
- GERBRANDY, P.,
- Publisher
- Athenaeum
- Publication year
- 2009
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- Dutch
- ISBN 10
- 902536425X
- ISBN 13
- 9789025364250
Maar hoe zit het met Lucilius en Varro, Persius en Gellius, Symmachus en Macrobius? Om wat voor reden dan ook worden zij nog zelden gelezen, terwijl hun werk buitengewoon de moeite waard is. In Het feest van Saturnus wordt een overzicht geboden van de Latijnse literatuur van de heidense Oudheid, een ongebroken traditie die een kleine duizend jaar omspant, van de derde eeuw v.Chr. tot aan de Middeleeuwen. Alle auteurs worden in hun literaire verband geplaatst en vele fragmenten in vertaling staan er borg voor dat de werken echt tot leven komen. Het boek laat zien dat de Romeinse literatoren een onwrikbaar geloof koesterden in de macht van het woord, dat zij virtuoos gebruikten om geliefden te verleiden, rechters te overreden, vijanden zwart te maken en verslagen te boekstaven.
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Maar hoe zit het met Lucilius en Varro, Persius en Gellius, Symmachus en Macrobius? Om wat voor reden dan ook worden zij nog zelden gelezen, terwijl hun werk buitengewoon de moeite waard is. In Het feest van Saturnus wordt een overzicht geboden van de Latijnse literatuur van de heidense Oudheid, een ongebroken traditie die een kleine duizend jaar omspant, van de derde eeuw v.Chr. tot aan de Middeleeuwen. Alle auteurs worden in hun literaire verband geplaatst en vele fragmenten in vertaling staan er borg voor dat de werken echt tot leven komen. Het boek laat zien dat de Romeinse literatoren een onwrikbaar geloof koesterden in de macht van het woord, dat zij virtuoos gebruikten om geliefden te verleiden, rechters te overreden, vijanden zwart te maken en verslagen te boekstaven.
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Scrinium Classical Antiquity, member of the Dutch Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (NVvA - ILAB), stands for a specialized stock of new, secondhand and antiquarian books about Classical Antiquity. The main theme of our books is Classical Antiquity: texts and commentaries, translations, archeology, philosophy, travel, history, mythology, books for young people, philology, law, reception of classical motives in Middle Ages, Renaissance and our own time and neo-Hellenika (conptemporary Greece), and many more subjects. A more modest quantity of our books concerns countries, civilisations and religious movements on the edges of the classical world: e.g. Egypt, Middle East and Early Christianity.…
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