{"product_id":"greek-biography-and-panegyric-in-late-antiquity-volume-31-hardcover","title":"Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity: Volume 31 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTomas Hägg\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePhilip Rousseau\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two centuries between a.d. 250 and a.d. 450 witnessed the creation of a distinctive Christian Greek culture in the eastern part of the Roman empire. This book focuses on the transition from ancient to Christian Hellenism as it was expressed in the biographical and panegyric literature of the period. The essays show how literary genres focusing on individual lives help to reveal this historical process. The contributors are leading scholars who bring several disciplines to bear on these texts: they are historians, theologians, classicists, and historians of religion. Together, the collection presents much new research and helps show Late Antiquity not only as an important transitional period but also as an era with an identity of its own. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the figures the biographical texts bring to life are Antony the Great, the charismatic desert father, and Basil of Caesarea, the influential church politician. Collectively the essays go beyond discussion of particular texts to consider such general topics as strategies of rhetoric and representation, the place of classical Greek culture in both pagan and Christian education, and what is meant by philosophy as a way of life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e will send readers back to many Late Antique texts with an enhanced appreciation of how these highly idiosyncratic works exhibit in concentrated form some of the most characteristic and widespread values, tensions, and literary strategies of their age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTomas Hägg\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Bergen and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Novel in Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1983), among other books. \u003cb\u003ePhilip Rousseau\u003c\/b\u003e, Associate Professor of History at the University of Auckland, is currently Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies at the Catholic University of America and author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eBasil of Caesarea\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1994). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.07 x 9.33 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 04, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42133481750663,"sku":"9780520223882","price":124.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/409c623615afa9b27a08e97cc3740477.webp?v=1732634672","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/greek-biography-and-panegyric-in-late-antiquity-volume-31-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}