Title The aesthetics of hope in late Greek imperial literature : Methodius of Olympus' Symposium and the crisis of the third century / Dawn LaValle Norman

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 287 pages) Series Greek Culture in the Roman World Greek culture in the Roman world. Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Christians among Imperial Greek Writers in the Third Century -- Looking Back and Looking Forward -- Positioning the Third Century between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity -- Methodius of Olympus and his Symposium -- The Shape of This Book -- Chapter 1 Mapping Third-Century Literature from the Severans to Constantine -- The Crisis of the Third Century -- After Philostratus, Plotinus and Origen: The Literature of the "Third Century Crisis" (235-315) Shifting Centers and Connectivity between Them -- New Third-Century Centers -- Lycia in the Rhetorical Networks of the Third Century -- The Question of a Third-Century Aesthetic -- Chapter 2 The End of Dialogue?: The Christianization of a Tradition -- Phantasia, Mimesis and the Delights of Dialogue -- Philosophical Dialogue and Erotapokriseis: Method versus Content -- Why Dialogue? -- Fantasizing Philosophers, Training the Imagination -- Participatory Insertion -- Changing Interpersonal Constellations -- Authorial Authority -- How to Ask a Question: The Classroom The Trial of Words: The Courtroom -- Neoplatonic Dialogues -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Compilation and Unity in Imperial Sympotic Traditions -- Defining the Symposium -- Belatedness -- Ancient and Modern Definitions -- The Three Waves: Xenophon vs. Plato -- The Second-Wave Symposia of Plutarch and Athenaeus -- Xenophon and the Origins of the Episodic Symposium -- From Xenophon to Plutarch -- Plutarch's Quaestiones Convivales to Athenaeus' Deipnosophists -- Plutarch's Symposium of the Seven Sages to Lucian's Lapiths -- The Third-Wave Symposia of Methodius and Julian Plato and the Origin of the Unified Symposium -- From Plato to Methodius and Julian: A New Type of Symposium -- Shadow-Image-Reality -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Rhetoric and the Problem of Rivalry -- Silence, Performance and the Problem of Rivalry -- The Sophistic Rivalry among the Virgins -- Methodius' Sophistic Stance towards his Audience -- The Parallel in Intellectual Activity between Methodius and his Virgins -- The Persistence of Difference: Harmony and Variation -- Harmony and Variation in Rhetoric -- Harmony and Variation among the Speeches of the Virgins Summary An early Christian dialogue with an all-female cast makes us rethink how literature was changing during the third century CE Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Death and Song: Chronotope in Philostratus, Lucian and Methodius Description based on print version record Subject Methodius, of Olympus, Saint, -311. Symposium. SUBJECT Symposium (Methodius, of Olympus, Saint) fast Subject Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism Christian literature, Early Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316999042 1316999041 9781108657389 1108657389

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