Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD : Performing Paideia, Constructing the Present, Presenting the Self /

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Challenging ideas about the declining social role and impact of literature in Late Antiquity, Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD demonstrates how Greek and Latin literature of the fourth century AD continued to play an important role in public performance and debate, the creation of rea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hoof, Lieve van, Nuffelen, Peter van
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2015.
Colección:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum.
Temas:
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Christian literature, Early > History and criticism.
Literature and society.
Littérature latine > Histoire et critique.
Littérature chrétienne primitive > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Christian literature, Early
Latin literature
Literature and society
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Abbreviations; Notes on the Contributors; 1 The Social Role and Place of Literature in the Fourth Century AD; 2 Literary History: A Fourth-Century Roman Invention?; 3 Militia philosophorum: Le rôle des lettrés dans l'entourage des empereurs romains du IVe siècle; 4 Gregory's Governors: Paideia and Patronage in Cappadocia; 5 Lobbying through Literature: Libanius, For the Teachers (Oration 31); 6 Texts, Teachers and Pupils in the Writings of Gregory of Nyssa; 7 Unreliable Witness: Failings of the Narrative in Ammianus Marcellinus
  • 8 A Living Relic for the Vicar of Rome: Strategies of Visualization in a Civil Case9 A Hero in our Midst: Stilicho as a Literary Construct in the Poetry of Claudian; 10 The Apostles as Instruments of Social Engagement: The Poetical Representation of the Apostles as a Means of Influencing Society; 11 A War of Words: Sermons and Social Status in Constantinople under the Theodosian Dynasty; Bibliography; Index

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