Format: Hardback
        
        
        
        
            Pages: 349
          
                              
            ISBN: 9781463206079
          
                              
            Pub Date: December 2016
          
                                                            
                                          Imprint: Gorgias Press
                                    
                              
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                £136.00
            
  
          
          
          
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          Description:
      
      
        Cyrillona (fl. 396) was a younger contemporary of Ephrem the Syrian whose work has been celebrated as comparable in both beauty and its significance for our understanding of early Syriac Christianity. This study reassesses conventional claims about the author’s identity, date, and the constitution of his corpus. It introduces each of Cyrillona’s five surviving poems and examines their poetic form and genre, structure and rhetorical features, and critical questions of text, interpretation, and theology.