The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature: Methodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century

ISBN-13: 9781108494175 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 264 str.

Dawn Lavalle Norman

Opis

Sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, by examining how some early Christian writers tried to re-orient literature. Methodius of Olympus' dialogic Symposium exposes an era's new concerns, with its insistence that the future is more interesting than the past.

Recenzje

'The standard of scholarship exhibited by this meticulously researched and elegantly written monograph is very high … LaValle Norman's work deserves a wide readership, in the fields of both “Second Sophistic” and 'Late Antiquity' studies.' Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Journal of Early Christian Studies

Spis treści

Introduction. Christians among Imperial Greek writers in the third century; 1. Mapping third-century literature from the Severans to Constantine; 2. The end of dialogue? The Christianization of a tradition; 3. Compilation and unity in Imperial sympotic traditions; 4. Rhetoric and the problem of rivalry; 5. The lyric tradition and changing hymnic forms; Conclusion.