CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Bougioukli, Sofia |
|---|---|
| Title | Palladas' Self-Representation: The Erudite Teacher and Civic-Minded Intellectual in Fourth-Century Alexandria |
| Summary | The current thesis explores a group of epigrams by the understudied poet and grammarian, Palladas of Alexandria (fourth century AD). My thesis will provide, for the first time, an exploration of interconnected aspects of Palladas’s self-representation and self-fashioning. Such an investigation into Palladas’s construction of these two aspects of the self allows us to address various dimensions of the intellectual and social milieu in the late antique East. I will argue how Palladas builds his image of the ideal intellectual as Hellenic erudite teacher and civic-minded intellectual. To demonstrate the way the late antique intellectual construct his own image, I will study his explicit self-referential comments, his programmatic statements and his criticism against other intellectuals by means of invective and satire. I will combine a philological and intra-cultural approach: by means of intertextual and discursive analysis, I will examine Palladas’s relation to other texts but also contemporary cultural representations. |
| Supervisor | Menze Volker, Van den Berg Baukje |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/bougioukli_sofia.pdf |
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