Christos Simelidis

Distorted Exegesis and Gregory of Nazianzus’ Poetic Response: A Revised Text and New Interpretation of Carm. II.1.39.1–24

Abstract This article argues that vocabulary drawn from Origen is crucial for understanding the opening section of Gregory’s poem On His Own Verses, a poem central to his self-conscious articulation of a classicizing Christian poetics. It also adopts a transposition proposed by Nigel G. Wilson and presents a revised te...