The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature : Methodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century Hardback
by Dawn (Australian Catholic University, Melbourne) LaValle Norman
Part of the Greek Culture in the Roman World series
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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.
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- Pages:264 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2019
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- ISBN:9781108494175
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2019
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- ISBN:9781108494175
