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Informationen zum Autor Averil Cameron taught at King’s College London and was subsequently Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History in Oxford and Warden of Keble College. She held a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship to work on Greek dialogues in late antiquity and Byzantium. Niels Gaul is the A. G. Leventis Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Klappentext This is the ¿rst book to deal with the writing of literary and philosophical dialogues in Greek from the Roman empire to the end of Byzantium and beyond. Arranged in chronological order, 16 case studies combining theoretical approaches and in-depth analysis introduce a wide array of such dialogues, including consideration of the neighbouring Syriac, Georgian, and Armenian, as well as Latin traditions. The authors and genres studied include Plutarch, John Chrysostom, Maximus Confessor, the Adversus Iudaeos and apocryphal revelation dialogues, Anselm of Havelberg, Soterichos Panteugenos, Niketas 'of Maroneia', Theodore Prodromos, Nikephoros Gregoras, Manuel II Palaiologos, and George Scholarios. Zusammenfassung Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium offers the first overall discussion of the literary and philosophical dialogue tradition in Greek from imperial Rome to the end of the Byzantine empire and beyond. Sixteen case studies combine theoretical approaches with in-depth analysis and include comparisons with the neighbouring Syriac, Georgian, Armenian and Latin traditions. Following an introduction and a discussion of Plutarch as a writer of dialogues, other chapters consider the Erostrophus , a philosophical dialogue in Syriac, John Chrysostom’s On Priesthood , issues of literariness and complexity in the Greek Adversus Iudaeos dialogues, the Trophies of Damascus , Maximus Confessor’s Liber Asceticus and the middle Byzantine apocryphal revelation dialogues. The volume demonstrates a new frequency in middle and late Byzantium of rhetorical, theological and literary dialogues, concomitant with the increasing rhetoricisation of Byzantine literature, and argues for a move towards new and exciting experiments. Individual chapters examine the Platonising and anti-Latin dialogues written in the context of Anselm of Havelberg’s visits to Constantinople, the theological dialogue by Soterichos Panteugenos, the dialogues of Niketas ‘of Maroneia’ and the literary dialogues by Theodore Prodromos, all from the twelfth century. The final chapters explore dialogues from the empire’s Georgian periphery and discuss late Byzantine philosophical, satirical and verse dialogues by Nikephoros Gregoras, Manuel II Palaiologos and George Scholarios, with special attention to issues of form, dramatisation and performance. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction AVERIL CAMERON AND NIELS GAUL 1 Plutarch’s dialogues: beyond the Platonic example? ELENI KECHAGIA-OVSEIKO 2 Erostrophus , a Syriac dialogue with Socrates on the soul ALBERTO RIGOLIO 3 The rhetorical mechanisms of John Chrysostom’s On Priesthood ALBERTO J. QUIROGA PUERTAS 4 Literary distance and complexity in late antique and early Byzantine Greek dialogues Adversus Iudaeos PATRICK ANDRIST 5 Prepared for all occasions: the Trophies of Damascus and the Bonwetsch Dialogue PETER VAN NUFFELEN 6 New wine in old wineskin: Byzantine reuses of the apocryphal revelation dialogue PÉTER TÓTH 7 Dialogical pedagogy and the structuring of emotions in Liber Asceticus IOANNIS PAPADOGIANNAKIS 8 Anselm of Havelberg’s controversies with the Greeks: a moment in the scholastic culture of disputation ALEX J. NOVIKOFF 9 A Platonising dialogue from the twelfth century: the logos of Soteric...
