Greek Dialogue in Antiquity: Post-Platonic Transformations by Ja Zd Zewska, Katarzyna

Greek Dialogue in Antiquity: Post-Platonic Transformations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780192893352)

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Greek Dialogue in Antiquity: Post-Platonic Transformations by Ja Zd Zewska, Katarzyna

Greek Dialogue in Antiquity: Post-Platonic Transformations

$105.00
Greek Dialogue in Antiquity: Post-Platonic Transformations by Ja Zd Zewska, Katarzyna

Greek Dialogue in Antiquity: Post-Platonic Transformations

$105.00
Format: Hardcover
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Greek Dialogue in Antiquity reexamines evidence for Greek dialogue between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-first century CE - that is, roughly from Plato's death to the death of Philo of Alexandria. Although the genre of dialogue in antiquity has attracted a growing interest in the past two decades, the time covered in this book has remained overlooked and unresearched, with scholars believing that for much of this period the dialogue genre went through a period of decline and was revived only in the Roman times. The book carefully reassesses Post-Platonic and Hellenistic evidence, including papyri fragments, which have never been discussed in this context, and challenges the narrative of the dialogue's decline and subsequent revival, postulating, instead, the genre's unbroken continuity from the Classical period to the Roman Empire. It argues that dialogues and texts creatively interacting with dialogic conventions were composed throughout Hellenistic times, and proposes to reconceptualize the imperial period dialogue as evidence not of a resurgence, but of continuity in this literary tradition.

Author: Katarzyna Jażdżewska
ISBN-10: 0192893351
ISBN-13: 9780192893352
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/03/2022
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2022
By Katarzyna Jażdżewska
By Katarzyna Jażdżewska
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Katarzyna Jażdżewska, Associate Professor / AIAS-COFUND Fellow, Aarhus University

Katarzyna Jażdżewska is Associate Professor at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (Aarhus University) and a Classicist working on ancient prose. She is interested in literary formats of ancient texts and has published on various aspects of Greek dialogue, on laughter in antiquity, and on animal exemplarity in moralizing prose. She has also published several book-length translations from ancient Greek into Polish.

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