Petition and Performance in Ancient Rome : : The Apologies of Justin Martyr /

Petition and Performance in Ancient Rome : : The Apologies of Justin Martyr / / Brandon Cline.

This study advances a suggestive reading of Justin Martyr's Apologies as a subjective appropriation of the forms and practices of the Roman system of petition and response. It offers an historical contextualization of the Apologies within both contemporary administrative culture and the wider l...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Cline, Brandon,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics ; 75
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION: PETITION AND PERFORMANCE
  • CHAPTER 1. JUSTIN’S PERFORMANCE CONTEXT: PETITION AND RESPONSE IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
  • CHAPTER 2. LITERARY SELF-DESCRIPTION IN THE APOLOGIES
  • CHAPTER 3. A LITERARY COMPARISON OF THE APOLOGIES WITH ADMINISTRATIVE PETITIONS
  • CHAPTER 4. GENERIC HYBRIDITY IN THE APOLOGIES
  • CONCLUSION: SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT
  • APPENDIX: HOW MANY APOLOGIES DID JUSTIN WRITE?
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • GENERAL INDEX

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