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Christians among Imperial Greek Writers in the Third Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2019

Dawn LaValle Norman
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Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
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As driving instructors and philosophers alike tell us, where you look has a lot to do with where you end up going. Focusing on a billboard may result with you and your car in a ditch. And where your imagination lovingly lingers forms who you become. This book examines a moment when authors were struggling to redirect the gaze, and thereby the path, of a generation during the period of the “Crisis of the Third Century,” the tipping-point between the period typically referred to as the “Second Sophistic” and the period that has come to be known as “Late Antiquity.” Through the prism of a particularly creative author of the late third century, I will argue in this book that Greek Imperial literature can be read with more depth and subtlety as an aesthetic battle between a rhetoric of the old and a rhetoric of the new.

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The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
Methodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century
, pp. 1 - 21
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Introduction
  • Dawn LaValle Norman, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
  • Book: The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
  • Online publication: 15 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108657389.001
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  • Introduction
  • Dawn LaValle Norman, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
  • Book: The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
  • Online publication: 15 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108657389.001
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  • Introduction
  • Dawn LaValle Norman, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
  • Book: The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
  • Online publication: 15 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108657389.001
Available formats
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