The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
Title | The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Dawn LaValle Norman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2019-12-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110849417X |
An early Christian dialogue with an all-female cast makes us rethink how literature was changing during the third century CE.
The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
Title | The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Dawn LaValle Norman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2019-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 110862751X |
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.
Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
Title | Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue PDF eBook |
Author | Jason König |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2022-05-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316516687 |
Offers new insights into late Hellenistic literary culture and its relationship with imperial Greek literature.
Roman Ionia
Title | Roman Ionia PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Hallmannsecker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2022-05-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1009150189 |
First full-length study of the cultural identity of the Ionian Greeks in Western Asia Minor under Roman rule.
The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi
Title | The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi PDF eBook |
Author | Mont Allen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2022-12-31 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1316510913 |
This book explores the disappearance of Greek mythic imagery from the Roman sarcophagi in the 3rd Century.
The Apologists and Paul
Title | The Apologists and Paul PDF eBook |
Author | Todd D. Still |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2024-06-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567715485 |
This volume examines the use of Paul's writing within the work of ante-Nicene apologetic writers. It takes apologetics as a broad genre in which many early Christian writers participated, offering rhetorical defenses for emerging aspects of doctrine, rooted in understanding of the scriptures, and often specifically the writings of Paul. The volume interacts with the writings of many significant 'apologetic' writers, including: Melito of Sardis, Clement of Alexandria, Tatian, Tertullian, Hippolytus and Cyprian. The chapters examine how these early Christian writers used the letters of Paul to develop their own philosophical ideas and defenses of aspects of the emerging Christian faith. The internationally renowned contributors have all been specially commissioned for this volume, and an afterword by Todd D. Still considers the question of whether or not Paul was an 'apologist' himself.
The Christian Invention of Time
Title | The Christian Invention of Time PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Goldhill |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 517 |
Release | 2022-02-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316512908 |
With trademark flair, Simon Goldhill shows how Christianity transformed humanity's relationship with time in ways that resonate today.