Literature and society in the fourth century AD : performing paideia, constructing the present, presenting the self /

Literature and society in the fourth century AD : performing paideia, constructing the present, presenting the self /

Late Antiquity is often assumed to have witnessed the demise of literature as a social force and its retreat into the school and the private reading room: whereas the sophists of the Second Sophistic were influential social players, their late antique counterparts are thought to have been overshadow...

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Other Authors: Van Hoof, Lieve., Nuffelen, Peter van.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 373.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

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Latin literature > History and criticism.
Christian literature, Early > History and criticism.
Literature and society.

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Call Number: PA6043 .L58 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 The Social Role and Place of Literature in the Fourth Century ad /
  • Lieve Van Hoof and Peter Van Nuffelen
  • 2 Literary History: A Fourth-Century Roman Invention? /
  • Mark Vessey
  • 3 Militia philosophorum : Le rôle des lettrés dans l'entourage des empereurs romains du ive siècle /
  • Bertrand Lan
  • 4 Gregory's Governors: Paideia and Patronage in Cappadocia /
  • Neil McLynn
  • 5 Lobbying through Literature: Libanius, For the Teachers (Oration 31) /
  • Lieve Van Hoof
  • 6 Texts, Teachers and Pupils in the Writings of Gregory of Nyssa /
  • Morwenna Ludlow
  • 7 Unreliable Witness: Failings of the Narrative in Ammianus Marcellinus /
  • John Weisweiler
  • 8 A Living Relic for the Vicar of Rome: Strategies of Visualization in a Civil Case /
  • Sigrid Mratschek
  • 9 A Hero in our Midst: Stilicho as a Literary Construct in the Poetry of Claudian /
  • Clare Coombe
  • 10 The Apostles as Instruments of Social Engagement: The Poetical Representation of the Apostles as a Means of Influencing Society /
  • Roald Dijkstra
  • 11 A War of Words: Sermons and Social Status in Constantinople under the Theodosian Dynasty /
  • Peter Van Nuffelen
  • Bibliography
  • Index.