Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature: Images, Metatexts and Interpretation is a collection of essays that survey the rhetorical tropes and the metaliterary dimension of works by important authors such as Eusebius of Caesarea, Methodius, Gregory of Nazianzus, Nonnus and the emperor Julian in a period marked by intense and thriving contact between Classical paideia and Christian culture. Building on recent interpretations of the late antique cultural landscape as a milieu in which our understanding of religious dichotomies such as pagan vs. Christian requires a more...