End of Dialogue in Antiquity (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Goldhill, Simon

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'Dialogue' was invented as a written form in democratic Athens and made a celebrated and popular literary and philosophical style by Plato. Yet it almost completely disappeared in the Christian empire of late antiquity. This book, a general and systematic study of the genre in antiquity, asks: who wrote dialogues and why? Why did dialogue no longer attract writers in the later period in the same way? Investigating dialogue goes to the heart of the central issues of power, authority, openness and playfulness in changing cultural contexts. This book analyses the relationship between literary form and cultural authority in a new and exciting way, and encourages closer reflection about the purpose of dialogue in its wider social, cultural and religious contexts in today's world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511460760
• Artikelnr.: 38209652

Inhaltsangabe

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.