Greek Literature in Late Antiquity

Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism
Herausgeber: Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Late Antiquity has attracted a significant amount of attention in recent years. As a historical period it has thus far been defined by the transformation of Roman institutions, the emergence of distinct religious cultures (Jewish, Christian, Islamic), and the transmission of ancient knowledge to medieval and early modern Europe. Despite all this, the study of late antique literary culture is still in its infancy, especially for the Greek and other eastern texts examined in this volume. The contributions here presented make new inroads into a rich literature notable above all for its flexibility and unparalleled creativity in combining multiple languages and literary traditions. The authors and texts discussed include Philostratus, Eusebius of Caesarea, Nonnos of Panopolis, the important St Polyeuktos epigram, and numerous others. The volume makes use of a variety of interdisciplinary approaches in an attempt to provoke discussion on change (Dynamism), literary education (Didacticism), and reception studies (Classicism). The result is a study which highlights the erudition and literary sophistication characteristic of the period and brings questions of contextualization, linguistic association, and artistic imagination to bear on little-known or undervalued texts, without neglecting important evidence from material culture and social practices. With contributions by both established scholars and young innovators in the field of late antique studies, there is no work of comparable authority or scope currently available. This volume will stimulate further interest in a range of untapped texts from Late Antiquity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780754656838
• ISBN-10: 0754656837
• Artikelnr.: 21337648

Autorenporträt

Scott Fitzgerald Johnson is a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Dynamism: New themes and styles in Greek literature, a title
revisited The dynamic reception of Theodore of Mopsuestia in the 6th
century: Greek, Syriac, and Latin. Apollonius of Tyana in Late Antiquity.
Part 2 Didacticism: Eusebiusa (TM) Praeparatio Evangelica as literary
experiment Instruction by question and answer: the case of Late Antique and
Byzantine erotapokriseis. Rhetorical and theatrical fictions in the works
of Chorikios of Gaza. Part 3 Classicism: Writers and audiences in the early
6th century The Hellenistic epyllion and its descendants. The St Polyeuktos
epigram (AP 1.10): a literary approach. Late Antique narrative fiction:
apocryphal acta and the Greek novel in the 5th-century Life and Miracles of
Thekla.