The End of Dialogue in Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9781108823845 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 274 str.

Simon Goldhill

Opis

This book is a general and systematic study of the genre of dialogue in antiquity, investigating why dialogue matters.

Recenzje

"The book's scope--from Thucydides and Plato, to Cicero and late sympotic literature, to the rabbinic tales and the Church Fathers--is wondrous. --BMCR

Spis treści

Introduction: why don't Christians do dialogue? Simon Goldhill; Part I. Classical Models: 1. Fictions of dialogue in Thucydides Emily Greenwood; 2. The beginnings of dialogue: Socratic discourses and fourth-century prose Andrew Ford; 3. Plato's dialogues and a common rationale for dialogue form Alex Long; Part II. Empire Models: 4. Ciceronian dialogue Malcolm Schofield; 5. Sympotic dialogue in the first to fifth centuries CE Jason König; Part III. Christianity and the Theological Imperative: 6. Can we talk? Augustine and the possibility of dialogue Gillian Clark; 7. Let's (not) talk about it: Augustine and the control of epistolary dialogue Richard Miles; Part IV. Christianity and the Social: 8. Christians, dialogue and patterns of sociability in late antiquity Richard Lim; 9. Boethius, Gregory the Great and the Christian 'afterlife' of Classical dialogue Kate Cooper and Matthew Dal Santo; Part V. Judaism and the Limits of Dialogue: 10. No dialogue at the symposium? Conviviality in Ben Sira and the Palestinian Talmud Seth Schwartz; 11. Dialectic and divination in the Talmud Daniel Boyarin.