Book contents
- The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
- Greek Culture in the Roman World
- The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Mapping Third-Century Literature from the Severans to Constantine
- Chapter 2 The End of Dialogue?
- Chapter 3 Compilation and Unity in Imperial Sympotic Traditions
- Chapter 4 Rhetoric and the Problem of Rivalry
- Chapter 5 The Lyric Tradition and Changing Hymnic Forms
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Christians among Imperial Greek Writers in the Third Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2019
- The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
- Greek Culture in the Roman World
- The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Mapping Third-Century Literature from the Severans to Constantine
- Chapter 2 The End of Dialogue?
- Chapter 3 Compilation and Unity in Imperial Sympotic Traditions
- Chapter 4 Rhetoric and the Problem of Rivalry
- Chapter 5 The Lyric Tradition and Changing Hymnic Forms
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
As driving instructors and philosophers alike tell us, where you look has a lot to do with where you end up going. Focusing on a billboard may result with you and your car in a ditch. And where your imagination lovingly lingers forms who you become. This book examines a moment when authors were struggling to redirect the gaze, and thereby the path, of a generation during the period of the “Crisis of the Third Century,” the tipping-point between the period typically referred to as the “Second Sophistic” and the period that has come to be known as “Late Antiquity.” Through the prism of a particularly creative author of the late third century, I will argue in this book that Greek Imperial literature can be read with more depth and subtlety as an aesthetic battle between a rhetoric of the old and a rhetoric of the new.
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- The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial LiteratureMethodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century, pp. 1 - 21Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019