Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas

The Dynamics of Rhetorical Performances in Late Antiquity (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Competition among cultural elites, strategies of self-presentation and the making of religious orthodoxy often took the shape of narrations of rhetorical performances in which comments on the display of oratorical skills also incorporated moral and ethical judgments about the performer. Using texts from late antique authors (in particular, Themistius, Synesius of Cyrene, and Libanius of Antioch), this book proposes that this type of narrative should be understood as a valuable way to decipher the cultural and religious landscape of the fourth century AD.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317035022
• Artikelnr.: 54537842

Autorenporträt

Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas (Ph.D. 2006) is Lecturer in the Department of Ancient Greek at the University of Granada, Spain. He has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, UK (2006-2009), and was fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C., US (2014-2015). His main research interests include Greek Imperial literature and the impact of rhetoric in the creation of cultural and religious identities in Late Antiquity. He has edited the volumes The Purpose of Rhetoric in Late Antiquity: From Performance to Exegesis (2013) and Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature: Images, Metatexts, and Interpretation (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Index
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1: Theory and Practice of Rhetorical Performance from Classical Antiquity to Imperial Times
Literature Review
Theoretical Approaches to Rhetorical Performance in Antiquity
Narrations of Rhetorical Performances in Greco-Roman Literature
2: Charlatans, Philosophers, and Philostratean Bishops in Late Antique Literature
Philosophers, Belletrists and Charlatans
Philostratean Bishops
3: All the world's a stage. Libanius' life as a Rhetorical Performance
Literature Review
Becoming a sophist
A Performable Life. The Narrations of Rhetorical Performances in Libanius' Autobiography
A star is born
Homecoming
4: Conclusions
Index