Cyprian Gallic (sometimes Cyprian ; Latin Cypriani Galli ) - an ancient Roman Latin-speaking poet who lived in Gaul at the beginning of the 5th century AD e.
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Very little is known about his life. It is assumed that he was a native or lived in Gaul. According to Jacques Fontaine, the period of his work should be dated to 397-425 years. In his work on Cyprian, Fontaine does not appreciate his works, considering them too paraphrastic [1] ; on the other hand, researcher Michael Roberts calls them interesting late-poetry writings [2] .
The creative heritage of the author is great, although many of his works have survived only in fragments or have not reached at all. The most famous work of Cyprian is the poetic arrangement of the Pentateuch of Moses , the book of Joshua and the book of Judges . He omitted many ritual details in the books of Leviticus , Numbers and Deuteronomy and conveyed in his poem only purely historical events. In general, the text of Cyprian, according to the ESBE , "is quite monotonous and often completely devoid of vibrancy of the biblical story." There are practically no attempts to deviate from the Bible, except for the so-called cantica , that is, sacred hymns that are found in three places and written in lyrical sizes. It is highly probable that this arrangement of Holy Scripture was undertaken by Cyprian for schooling purposes. It was established that this work remained incomplete.
Of the pagan poets, he made the most extensive use of the works of Virgil , then Horace , Ovid , Persia and Juvenal , of the Christian poets Yuvenka , Prudentia , Peacock Nolansky , Avsoni and Klavdian . According to the ESBE, the language of this work is "very poor", and prosody "is full of gross errors." Probably, this composition was not very successful in his homeland, but became widespread among the Anglo-Saxons: it is known that later he was used by Aldhelm and Beda , Alquin and Ethelwulf. The work of Cyprian has long been attributed either to Avitus , then to St. Cyprian of Carthage , then Juvenka, then Tertullian .
It is believed that only Peyper ( Rudolf Peiper ) in the XIX century managed to shed some light on the personality of the poet. The same scientist also owns a critical edition of Cyprian's collected works (in the series Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Volume XXIII, Vienna, 1891), together with a reference to special literature; Cyprian's works are still not translated from Latin.
Notes
- ↑ Fontaine, Jacques. Naissance de la poésie dans l'Occident chrétien . Paris 1981.
- ↑ Roberts, Michael. Biblical epic ans rhetorical paraphrase in late antiquity . Wesleyan University, 1985.
Source
- Ciprian // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.