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The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature - Dawn LaValle Norman

The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature

Methodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century
Buch | Softcover
295 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-71399-3 (ISBN)
CHF 52,35 inkl. MwSt
Sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, by examining how some early Christian writers tried to re-orient literature. Methodius of Olympus' dialogic Symposium exposes an era's new concerns, with its insistence that the future is more interesting than the past.
This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity. It argues that more was being written during this time than past scholars have realized and takes as its prime example the understudied Christian writer Methodius of Olympus. Among his many works, this book focuses on his dialogic Symposium, a text which exposes an era's new concern to re-orient the gaze of a generation from the past onto the future. Dr LaValle Norman makes the further argument that scholarship on the Imperial period that does not include Christian writers within its purview misses the richness of this period, which was one of deepening interaction between Christian and non-Christian writers. Only through recovering this conversation can we understand the transitional period that led to the rise of Constantine.

Dawn LaValle Norman is a Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University's Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry.

Introduction. Christians among Imperial Greek writers in the third century; 1. Mapping third-century literature from the Severans to Constantine; 2. The end of dialogue? The Christianization of a tradition; 3. Compilation and unity in Imperial sympotic traditions; 4. Rhetoric and the problem of rivalry; 5. The lyric tradition and changing hymnic forms; Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Greek Culture in the Roman World
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 431 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-108-71399-8 / 1108713998
ISBN-13 978-1-108-71399-3 / 9781108713993
Zustand Neuware
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