Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cameron, Averil; Gaul, Niels

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the ¿rst book to deal with the writing of literary and philosophical dialogues in Greek from the Roman empire to the end of Byzantium and beyond. Arranged in chronological order, 16 case studies combining theoretical approaches and in-depth analysis introduce a wide array of such dialogues, including consideration of the neighbouring Syriac, Georgian, and Armenian, as well as Latin traditions. The authors and genres studied include Plutarch, John Chrysostom, Maximus Confessor, the Adversus Iudaeos and apocryphal revelation dialogues, Anselm of Havelberg, Soterichos Panteugenos, Niketas 'of Maroneia', Theodore Prodromos, Nikephoros Gregoras, Manuel II Palaiologos, and George Scholarios.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351979085
• Artikelnr.: 47513798

Autorenporträt

Averil Cameron taught at King's College London and was subsequently Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History in Oxford and Warden of Keble College. She held a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship to work on Greek dialogues in late antiquity and Byzantium. Niels Gaul is the A. G. Leventis Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
AVERIL CAMERON AND NIELS GAUL
1 Plutarch's dialogues: beyond the Platonic example?
ELENI KECHAGIA-OVSEIKO
2 Erostrophus, a Syriac dialogue with Socrates on the soul
ALBERTO RIGOLIO
3 The rhetorical mechanisms of John Chrysostom's On Priesthood
ALBERTO J. QUIROGA PUERTAS
4 Literary distance and complexity in late antique and early Byzantine
Greek dialogues Adversus Iudaeos
PATRICK ANDRIST
5 Prepared for all occasions: the Trophies of Damascus and the Bonwetsch
Dialogue
PETER VAN NUFFELEN
6 New wine in old wineskin: Byzantine reuses of the apocryphal revelation
dialogue
PÉTER TÓTH
7 Dialogical pedagogy and the structuring of emotions in Liber
Asceticus
IOANNIS PAPADOGIANNAKIS
8 Anselm of Havelberg's controversies with the Greeks: a moment in the
scholastic culture of disputation
ALEX J. NOVIKOFF
9 A Platonising dialogue from the twelfth century: the logos of Soterichos
Panteugenos
FOTEINI SPINGOU
10 The six dialogues by Niketas 'of Maroneia': a contextualising
introduction
ALESSANDRA BUCOSSI
11 Theodore Prodromos in the Garden of Epicurus
ERIC CULLHED
12 'Let us not obstruct the possible': dialoguing in medieval Georgia
NIKOLOZ ALEKSIDZE
13 Embedded dialogues and dialogical voices in Palaiologan prose and verse
NIELS GAUL
14 Nikephoros Gregoras's Philomathes and Phlorentios
DIVNA MANOLOVA
15 Dramatisation and narrative in late Byzantine dialogues:
Manuel II Palaiologos's On Marriage and Mazaris' Journey to Hades
FLORIN LEONTE
16 Form and content in the dialogues of Gennadios Scholarios
GEORGE KARAMANOLIS
Bibliography
Index