Rhetorical strategies in late antique literature
Subtitle: images, metatexts and interpretation
By: edited by Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
Series: Mnemosyne. Supplements. Late antique literature -- volume 406; Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava -- 406.; Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9789004340091
Subjects: Ancient Rhetoric; Classical literature; History and criticism
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in English and French.
Table of contents: title: "I also have to dialogue with the posterity" : Aelius Aristides' legacy to the late antiquity / Lorenzo Miletti; title: Sofrosune and self-knowledge in Methodius' Symposium / Ryan C. Fowler; title: Rhétorique et argumentation dans l' apologétique latine de la période constantinenne / Guadalupe Lopetegui Semperena; title: Image and word in Eusebius of Caesarea (vc 3.4-24): Constantine in Nicaea / José B. Torres Guerra; title: In heaven unlike on earth : rhetorical strategies in Julian's caesars / Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas; title: Asianism, Arianism, and the encomium of Athanasius by Gregory of Nazianzus / Byron MacDougall; title: Rhetoric against the theatre and theatre by means of rhetoric in John Chrysostom / Leonardo Lugaresi; title: Socrates amongst the holy men : Socratic paradigms and styles in Eunapius' lives / Javier Campos Daroca; title: Harmonia's necklace (Nonn. D. 5.135-189) : a set of jewellery, ekphrasis and a narrative node / Laura Miguélez-Cavero.