The Literary Journeys of Gregory of Nazianzus and Synesius of Cyrene
Abstract
In this article, I will discuss the descriptions of sea storms in two late antique authors, Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. 329–389 CE) and Synesius of Cyrene (ca. 370–413 CE). Focusing on a conventional trope, this article explores how interaction with literary tradition can become a site of innovation and self-fashioning. I address here two distinct but related queries: how the literary creation of identity is pursued through the repetition of previous identities, and what role space and mobility take up in this process. In doing so, I aim to underline that the intertextuality of late antique, ‘belated’, literature is not only self-aware and creative, but can also act as a form of self-assertion.
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2026-10-10
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