Greek biography and panegyric in late antiquity / [electronic resource]
Hägg, Tomas.
Rousseau, Philip.
Høgel, Christian.
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2000.
The period from AD250 and AD 450 witnessed the creation of a distinctive Christian Greek culture in the eastern part of the Roman empire. This text focuses on the transition from ancient to Christian Hellenism, drawing on the literature of the time.
Papers originally presented at a conference at the Centre for the Study of European Civilization, Faculty of Arts, University of Bergen (Norway), August 28-31, 1996.
'Contributors': p. 273-275.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-271) and indexes.
Philosophic Lives and the Philosophic Life: Porphyry and Iamblichus / Gillian Clark -- Birth, Death, and Divinity in Porphyry's 'Life of Plotinus' / M. J. Edwards -- Form and Meaning: The 'Vita Constantini' and the 'Vita Antonii' / Averil Cameron -- Antony as Teacher in the Greek 'Life'/ Philip Rousseau --Philosophy and Simplicity: The Problem of Classical Education in Early Christian Biography / Samuel Rubenson -- Your Honor, My Reputation: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration on St. Basil the Great / Frederick W. Norris -- How to Praise a Friend: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration for St. Basil the Great / David Konstan -- Eros Transformed: Same-Sex Love and Divine Desire. Reflections on the Erotic Vocabulary in St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Speech on St. Basil the Great / Jostein Børtnes -- The Rhetoric of Praise in the Private Orations of Themistius / Robert J. Penella -- Strategies of Representation in Collective Biography: Constructing the Subject as Holy / Patricia Cox Miller -- The Syriac Life of Rabbula and Syrian Hellenism / G. W. Bowersock.
The period from AD250 and AD 450 witnessed the creation of a distinctive Christian Greek culture in the eastern part of the Roman empire. This text focuses on the transition from ancient to Christian Hellenism, drawing on the literature of the time.
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Greek prose literature
Authors, Greek
Biography as a literary form
Praise in literature
Greek prose literature
Authors, Greek
Biography as a literary form
Praise in literature
Languages & Literatures
Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures