Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity

Herausgeber: Miles, Richard

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the theme of identity: geographic, ethnic , religious, status and sex-based. Discussions of Roman texts and images show how constructions of identity and culture contributed to the creation of "late antiquity" as a historical concept.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 146mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780415194068
• ISBN-10: 0415194067
• Artikelnr.: 21706092

Autorenporträt

Richard Miles is a Research Fellow in Classical Studies at the Open University, and a Teaching By-Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Churchill College, Cambridge. He is currently working on a book on text and authority in the late antique North African church.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: constructing identities in late antiquity 2 The writes of
passage: cultural initiation in Heliodorus' Aethiopica 3 Gender and
identity in Musaeus' Hero and Leander 4 Prudentius' Psychomachia: the
Christian arena and the politics of display 5 Dramatic identities: tragedy
in late antiquity 6 Translate into Greek: Porphyry of Tyre on the new
barbarians 7 Autobiographical identity and philosophical past in
Augustine's dialogue De Libero Arbitrio 8 The destruction of statues in
late antiquity 9 Women and learning: gender and identity in scenes of
intellectual life on late Roman sarcophagi 10 Constructing the judge:
judicial accountability and the culture of criticism in late antiquity 11
The barbarian in late antiquity: image, reality, and transformation