The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature

Methodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century

AvDawn LaValle Norman

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity. It argues that more was being written during this time than past scholars have realized and takes as its prime example the understudied Christian writer Methodius of Olympus. Among his many works, this book focuses on his dialogic Symposium, a text which exposes an era's new concern to re-orient the gaze of a generation from the past onto the future. Dr LaValle Norman makes the further argument that scholarship on the Imperial period that does not include Christian writers within its purview misses the richness of this period, which was one of deepening interaction between Christian and non-Christian writers. Only through recovering this conversation can we understand the transitional period that led to the rise of Constantine.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-08
Mått:150 x 228 x 15 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Greek Culture in the Roman World
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108713993

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Dawn LaValle Norman is a Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University's Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry.

Recensioner i media

'... this book is rich in sophisticated insights, and the contrastive analysis with earlier literature makes it a highly stimulating reading well beyond the immediate subject of Methodius' Symposium. The book stands as an invitation to scholars of imperial literature to look at Christian materials and to scholars of Christianity to look at non-Christian literature. The comparison with imperial literature is exceptionally fruitful and stimulating; at the same time, the author rightly indicates that future work on Methodius should further investigate the links to Christian literature ... Methodius' Symposium, with LaValle Norman's reading of it, is an important wake-up call for scholars of early Christianity and beyond.' Alberto Rigolio, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Innehållsförteckning

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.