The End of Dialogue in Antiquity
Herausgeber: Goldhill, Simon
Introduction: why don't Christians do dialogue? Simon Goldhill; Part I.
Classical Models: 1. Fictions of dialogue in Thucydides Emily Greenwood; 2.
The beginnings of dialogue: Socratic discourses and fourth-century prose
Andrew Ford; 3. Plato's dialogues and a common rationale for dialogue form
Alex Long; Part II. Empire Models: 4. Ciceronian dialogue Malcolm
Schofield; 5. Sympotic dialogue in the first to fifth centuries CE Jason
König; Part III. Christianity and the Theological Imperative: 6. Can we
talk? Augustine and the possibility of dialogue Gillian Clark; 7. Let's
(not) talk about it: Augustine and the control of epistolary dialogue
Richard Miles; Part IV. Christianity and the Social: 8. Christians,
dialogue and patterns of sociability in late antiquity Richard Lim; 9.
Boethius, Gregory the Great and the Christian 'afterlife' of Classical
dialogue Kate Cooper and Matthew Dal Santo; Part V. Judaism and the Limits
of Dialogue: 10. No dialogue at the symposium? Conviviality in Ben Sira and
the Palestinian Talmud Seth Schwartz; 11. Dialectic and divination in the
Talmud Daniel Boyarin.
