Literature and society in the fourth century AD : : performing paideia, constructing the present, presenting the self /

Literature and society in the fourth century AD : : performing paideia, constructing the present, presenting the self / / edited by Lieve van Hoof and Peter van Nuffelen.

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Late Antiquity is often assumed to have witnessed the demise of literature as a social force and its retreat into the school and the private reading room: whereas the sophists of the Second Sophistic were influential social players, their late antique counterparts are thought to have been overshadow...

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Superior document:Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume 373
TeilnehmendeR:
Van Hoof, Lieve,
Nuffelen, Peter van,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; Volume 373.
Physical Description:1 online resource (257 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 The Social Role and Place of Literature in the Fourth Century ad / Lieve Van Hoof and Peter Van Nuffelen
  • 2 Literary History: A Fourth-Century Roman Invention? / Mark Vessey
  • 3 Militia philosophorum : Le rôle des lettrés dans l’entourage des empereurs romains du ive siècle / Bertrand Lan
  • 4 Gregory’s Governors: Paideia and Patronage in Cappadocia / Neil McLynn
  • 5 Lobbying through Literature: Libanius, For the Teachers (Oration 31) / Lieve Van Hoof
  • 6 Texts, Teachers and Pupils in the Writings of Gregory of Nyssa / Morwenna Ludlow
  • 7 Unreliable Witness: Failings of the Narrative in Ammianus Marcellinus / John Weisweiler
  • 8 A Living Relic for the Vicar of Rome: Strategies of Visualization in a Civil Case / Sigrid Mratschek
  • 9 A Hero in our Midst: Stilicho as a Literary Construct in the Poetry of Claudian / Clare Coombe
  • 10 The Apostles as Instruments of Social Engagement: The Poetical Representation of the Apostles as a Means of Influencing Society / Roald Dijkstra
  • 11 A War of Words: Sermons and Social Status in Constantinople under the Theodosian Dynasty / Peter Van Nuffelen
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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