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Title Rhetorical strategies in late antique literature : images, metatexts and interpretation / edited by Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
Published Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Series Mnemosyne. Supplements ; volume 406
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 406.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Late antique literature.
Contents "I also have to dialogue with the posterity" : Aelius Aristides' legacy to the late antiquity / Lorenzo Miletti -- Sofrosune and self-knowledge in Methodius' Symposium / Ryan C. Fowler -- Rhetorique et argumentation dans l'apologétique latine de la période constantinenne / Guadalupe Lopetegui Semperena -- Image and word in Eusebius of Caesarea (vc 3.4-24): Constantine in Nicaea / Jose B. Torres Guerra -- In heaven unlike on earth : rhetorical strategies in Julian's caesars / Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas -- Asianism, Arianism, and the encomium of Athanasius by Gregory of Nazianzus / Byron MacDougall -- Rhetoric against the theatre and theatre by means of rhetoric in John Chrysostom / Leonardo Lugaresi -- Socrates amongst the holy men : Socratic paradigms and styles in Eunapius' lives / Javier Campos Daroca -- Harmonia's necklace (Nonn. D. 5.135-189) : a set of jewellery, ekphrasis and a narrative node / Laura Miguelez-Cavero
Summary 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 in a period marked by intense and thriving contact between Classical paideia and Christian culture. The contributions of this volume dissect the reuse of Classical literature and the deployment of rhetorical techniques in the creation of texts and images meant for use in cultural and religious debates by building on recent interpretations of the late antique cultural landscape as a milieu in which our understanding of religious dichotomies requires a more nuanced reassessment. The authors treated in this volume include Eusebius of Caesarea, Methodius of Olympus, Gregory of Nazianzus, Nonnus and the emperor Julian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English and French
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 28, 2017)
Subject Rhetoric, Ancient.
Classical literature -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Classical literature
Rhetoric, Ancient
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Quiroga Puertas, Alberto J., 1978- editor.
LC no. 2017020863
ISBN 9789004340114
9004340114