“Ekphrasis of St. Sophia” by Paul the Silentiary and the Earlier Poetic Tradition
The purpose of this paper is to trace poetic samples that Paul the Silentiary borrowed for his poems “Ekphrasis of St. Sophia” and “Ekphrasis of the Ambo” and to explore the work of the poet with the texts of his predecessors. From the point of form, the poem by Paul is a mixture of the ekphrasis an...
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A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2019-03-01
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| Series: | Studia Litterarum |
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| Online Access: | http://studlit.ru/images/2019-4-1/Aleksandrova.pdf |