Lucian and His Roman Voices: Cultural Exchanges and Conflicts in the Late Roman Empire

ISBN-13: 9780367870676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

Eleni Bozia

Opis

Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges, political propaganda, and religious conflicts in the Early Roman Empire through the eyes of Lucian, his contemporary Roman authors, and Christian Apologists. Offering a multi-faceted analysis of the Lucianic corpus, this book explores how Lucian, a Syrian who wrote in Greek and wh

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Lucian and Juvenal on the Parasitic Life 3. The Literary Context and Social Sub-Context in Lucian and Gellius 4. Lucian’s Olympus and the Link to Christianity 5. The Reception of Lucian 6. Conclusion

O autorze

Eleni Bozia is an assistant professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Florida, USA, and holds a visiting research faculty position in the Institut für Informatik at the Universität Leipzig, Germany.