1st Edition
Greek Literature in Late Antiquity Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism
Part 1 Dynamism: New themes and styles in Greek literature, a title revisited The dynamic reception of Theodore of Mopsuestia in the 6th century: Greek, Syriac, and Latin. Apollonius of Tyana in Late Antiquity. Part 2 Didacticism: Eusebiusa (TM) Praeparatio Evangelica as literary experiment Instruction by question and answer: the case of Late Antique and Byzantine erotapokriseis. Rhetorical and theatrical fictions in the works of Chorikios of Gaza. Part 3 Classicism: Writers and audiences in the early 6th century The Hellenistic epyllion and its descendants. The St Polyeuktos epigram (AP 1.10): a literary approach. Late Antique narrative fiction: apocryphal acta and the Greek novel in the 5th-century Life and Miracles of Thekla.
Biography
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson is a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.
’This interesting volume - the result of a conference in Oxford in 2004 - covers unfamiliar ground, and covers it in challenging and innovative ways.’ Medium Aevum ’I can state that this book accomplishes what it sets out to do. It gives the reader a new way to investigate and consider late antique authors, texts, and literary trends. It helps the reader better understand what was happening in Late Antiquity and goes a long way in counteracting the pejorative view often attributed to the authors and events of Late Antiquity. This is a collection worth having and should serve well those interested in this period.’ The Medieval Review ’Altogether, this volume offers an excellent collection of individual essays and if, inevitably, the three headings impose a somewhat artificial unity, they do give the work a coherent structure while reflecting the spirit of literary output in the late antique world.’ Journal of Hellenic Studies
