The end of dialogue in antiquity
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Author
Contributions
- Goldhill, Simon. - Contributor
Publication
2008 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Language
English
Word Count
66,500 words, Guess
Page Count
266 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22560200M
- ISBN-139780521887748
- OCLC Control Number258083198
- OCLC Control Numberenddialogueantiq00gold
- Library of Congress Control Number2008040781
Classifications
- DDC809/.926
- LCCB105.D48 E53 2008
Description
"'Dialogue' was invented as a written form in democratic Athens and made a celebrated and popular literary and philosophical style by Plato. Yet it almost completely disappeared in the Christian empire of late antiquity. This book, the first general and systematic study of the genre in antiquity, asks: who wrote dialogues and why? Why did dialogue no longer attract writers in the later period in the same way? Investigating dialogue goes to the heart of the central issues of power, authority, openness and playfulness in changing cultural contexts. This book analyses the relationship between literary form and cultural authority in a new and exciting way, and encourages closer reflection about the purpose of dialogue in its wider social, cultural and religious contexts in today's world."--Jacket.
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